Brian York's Life

Done!

Written on July 30, 2008

Well, I can now “officially” claim to be done — or, at least, to be done writing my thesis. I even have three of the four signatures I need to move on to defend, and I should be able to get the fourth next week (which will still put me a couple of days ahead of schedule, so I’m comfortable with my rate of progress). After that, all that’s left will be the defence, and hopefully that shouldn’t be a problem. At the very least, I’ve done sufficiently good work, so the question will be how well I can explain it.

Still, after four years, this is quite the moment (although I still can’t help feeling that I really should be preparing for a Ph. D. defence rather than an M. Sc. defence). Despite unappreciative TACs, error-prone service mode observations, and the best efforts of my committee, I’m actually at the point of finishing my degree, which is quite the change from last year, when I was expecting an attempt to kick me out of the program entirely at any moment.

So, the thesis. Available here. The title’s still a bit dull, but it works. And, after this long, it’s nice to see everything together in one place.

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