Six Months Later...

Can you believe that NOTHING has moved since late January?!

Yesterday, I reached out to Dr. B again.  His response was to ask if Dr. Z had approved my thesis as "This should have been done quite a while ago."

No kidding.

Still No Update...

I reached out to Dr. B again via email a week after I spoke with him.  I told him that a deadline was imperative as I'm going to have to take vacation days to review and rewrite.  He responds that he understands.  

So in the meantime, after almost a year away from it, I'm doing a big review on my own.  (Hmm..."almost a year away from it" - that, dear readers, is RIDICULOUS!)  

Speaking of ridiculous, the weather in the Washington, DC area this week is preventing my regular business travel. If I can get myself to bed early and take on my old pre-workday habits, I should be able to put a dent in it over the next few days.

I found another resource from dissertationwriting.com:  Writing Chapter 1 - The Introduction of Your...Doctoral Dissertation...  that actually tells me a bit more on what is supposed to go into the introductory chapter.  The biggest issue is - to give a synopsis of the findings or not to give a synopsis.  I vote "yes."  And since the school is unresponsive, I think I'll be my own thesis advisor and do what I want to do.  So there.

Conversation with New Dissertation Dean

Had a brief conversation with the new dissertation dean (Dr. B) last week.  He had assumed that we would be having the discussion I had with Dr. S TWO YEARS AGO! (See March 30, 2014 blog post.) That is, he thought I was trying to kick off the proposal process.

Needless to say, I quickly corrected that assumption...walked him through the entire process, when I turned things in, Dr. Z's (non)responses, etc.  I told him that my biggest concern was that my data was now more than a year old and that I wouldn't be able to get any more.  He assured me that I wouldn't have to start over, that I was "done."  Hallelujah.

Part of his role as the new guy was to circle around with all of the thesis advisors.  He plans to reach out to Dr. Z to see where we are in the process and how to get it all finished.  He promises to get back to me after that.

First Update for 2016

When I started this blog, I had absolutely no idea that I would be still in the process by January of 2016.

Dr. Z has reviewed about 70% of my work as of August of last year.  I have received no updates since.  I hesitate to start into making the changes warranted by the review because I don't have time to deal with it the first time around after only a partial review, much less go through it again.

Concerned that the data in the dissertation is now over a year old.  I realize that it is obsolete the moment you "publish" it, but now we're really getting beyond the "sell by" date!

The school has a new dissertation dean (no more Dr. S).  He is Dr. B, and I have an appointment for a Skype call with him later this week.  Stay tuned...

Semi-Final Review - #2

OK. I peeked.  Not too bad.

Semi-Final Review

Heard from Dr. Z late yesterday.  Though he's not quite finished with the review, he sent me my March 29th version back with 10 comments.  I haven't looked at what he has to say yet, but I really need a day off of work this week; and today is it.  I'll look at it tomorrow.  Fingers crossed that it's not too bad.

90 Days...No Update

The title of the blog says it all....

At least no one is waiting on me.  Would, however, really like to finish this thing!