For Your Consideration . . .
Posted 16 October 2008 in Writing by Catriona
I’ve not received an official letter, as yet.
But the thesis is uploaded to the library site/digital theses project (and remind me to tell you about that debacle some day). Apparently, since it was uploaded yesterday, that should be the official date of award.
It’s printed and bound (and, yes, there was a debacle there, too, but not the printery’s fault: they’ve been awesome).
And it’s sitting on the shelf at home, next to the M.Phil.
This is the most self-aggrandising blog post I’ve ever written. And that’s saying something.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to put my education to good use (having a drink), by spending my evening in quiet, scholarly pursuits (having another drink), thus contributing to the overall state of knowledge in the world (maybe even having a third drink).
Share your thoughts [10]
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Leigh wrote at Oct 16, 08:08 am
They look beautiful and how proud you must feel having them on your shelf. Well done my wonderful big brained friend :) No one deserves them more.
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Wendy wrote at Oct 16, 12:35 pm
That’s fantastic…and the red covers are very beautiful!
I’m envious though that you have two volumes…my “institution” insisted on only one!
…have you looked inside yet though?…I was so scared of finding typos i avoided that for quite some time
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Tim wrote at Oct 16, 12:40 pm
Hooray! Many congratulations. :)
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Catriona wrote at Oct 16, 12:47 pm
Thanks, all!
The red covers are actually a much deeper red than they appear here: I bound the M.Phil. in hunter’s green (or kelly green, maybe? A nice, deep, dark green), so I thought a cherry red would look nice alongside that.
And I was determined to have two volumes: I could, perhaps, have bound it in one, but it would have been fairly chunky. Oddly, the second volume (which is all additional material—appendices and nothing else) is much thicker than the first one.
I’m not too worried about typos—or I wasn’t! Maybe I should be?
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John wrote at Oct 16, 10:33 pm
Yay! Congratulations Treena: fabulous news, and yes, they’re beautiful.
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Kirsty wrote at Oct 16, 11:52 pm
Bravo! Two volumes is impressive and I think it makes a lot of sense when you have all those appendices. Great work.
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Matthew Smith wrote at Oct 17, 01:05 am
Hooray for published works of a scholarly nature! I’m curious to hear all about your ADT submission. It’s amazing how groups of people can work together to really turn a simple transaction into a bizzare ritual.
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Catriona wrote at Oct 17, 01:13 am
Well, the problems with the ADT submission come down to this sequence of events:
1. E-mail saying, “your corrections have been approved; now you need to upload it to the library and your degree can be awarded. Follow this link for information.”
2. Follow the link.
3. Link says “upload limit is 70 MB.”
4. Freak out.
5. Double-check the size of my PDF file: 530 MB.
6. Freak out.
7. See a link on the library website saying, “If your file exceeds 70 MB, here’s some advice.”
8. Follow the link.
9. Main piece of advice? “Try saving the file as an .rtf.”
10. Freak out.
Then there was the fact that I had to upload it (or, in fact, ask the Theses Office to upload it for me: see above) in PDF form, but I couldn’t turn it into a PDF because the software doesn’t run on MacOS 10.5 and . . . well, more of the same, really.
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Gritchen wrote at Oct 17, 10:53 am
w00t!
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Quintus Sertorius wrote at Oct 20, 11:30 am
Acta est fabula plaudite