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Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence

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On 4/19/2018 10:21 PM, David Dalton wrote:
> It was a rough 2.5 hours, but this afternoon I passed my final
> Ph.D. oral defence. Now all I have to do is make some
> corrections to my thesis, submit it to the library, and
> attend Convocation on May 30.
> 
> My thesis is in geophysics, specifically applied math applied
> to theoretical seismology and continuum mechanics. The
> title is "On Backus average in modelling guided waves”
> and I will announce on here when the final version is
> available online.
> 
> I probably would have gotten my Ph.D. back in 1993 if I
> hadn’t been affected by bipolar disorder starting in 1991,
> but luckily I have not had significant problems since
> early 2005 and have not been in hospital since July, 1996.
> 
> The CV on my home page needs to be updated with the
> recent Ph.D. residency and with the five papers on which
> the thesis is based, but I probably won’t do that until
> after I get my thesis in the library. I plan to take the
> summer mostly off but will start looking for a postdoc
> for the fall or winter reasonably soon.
> 

congradulations!!
years and years of hard work there!
I never tried got masters instead, needed $$ faster.

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I passed my Ph.D. defence David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2018-04-20 00:51 -0230
  Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-04-19 23:05 -0500
    Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-04-20 18:20 -0400
      Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-04-20 18:40 -0500
  Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence Lofty Goat <rlwatkins@gmail.com> - 2018-04-20 12:09 -0500
  Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-04-20 18:14 -0400
    Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-04-20 18:43 -0500
      Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2018-04-20 22:04 -0230
        Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence lbjohnson1949@yahoo.com - 2018-04-21 05:06 -0700
  Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2018-06-01 02:23 -0230

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