Congrats! What did you write your thesis on?
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Congrats!!!! You did it! That's awesome!!
This is a precursor to defending your thesis, right? I don't mean to discourage, I've just been away from academia for a few too many years and my memory is getting rusty on the order of operations.
Regardless, it's a massive milestone and I commend your commitment to humanity's knowledge in the strongest possible terms.
In most places the defense is kind of just a formality. It's an important part of the ritual and the process, it's important to present your work, but nobody should be submitting unless they're definitely going to pass the defense, or else their supervisor has really failed them
It's good if your examiners have a few easy things to pick up, makes them feel useful and stops them from finding nonsense just to have something to criticise ;)
Remember these wise words:

What's the thesis topic?
The folding of Thorn Displays in Monroe? Doesn't make sense to me
You'll soon be free!
Hell yeah! What's your research about?
Machine learning?
I mean I'm taking a class on machine learning and ... well ... on the one hand it's supposed to be a "rigorous" theoretical class, and the project at least is going to actually be that because I get to choose the topic and I'm obviously gonna make it mathematically rigorous ... but on the other hand, my professor keeps saying "ask the LLMs for more details about the derivations I'm teaching you" 😭😭😭😭😭. I guess he decided teaching students real analysis is hard and ChatGPT is easy. And the lecture notes have literally zero references so I'm completely on my own 😭😭😭😭😭
I love how you summed up at least 75% of science. I’m in this picture and… I have mixed feelings!
Just because I’m a pedantic little academic: if you know how your data is crap, you can make an extra shiny model that doesn’t give only crap outputs
My dearest Fossil! Congratulations! Super proud of you dude - that's not a small feat. My M.Sc. damn near did me in.
Hell yeah! Now go get blackout drunk
We should all support him!
Source: am drunk
should only take three years after this
Good shit, king. We're proud of you
Congratulations!
Excellent! You can be proud of your accomplishment. Make sure to connect with loved ones and to find a time-consuming hobby in order to avoid the post-thesis depression.
As seen a very important Manuscript
Well done, what a fantastic achievement! Don’t let the self doubt gremlins in you did awesome getting here, congrats!
The first step in a good thesis defence is a strong thesis attack.
Congratulations because this sounds big not because I understand what a PhD thesis is. Sounds smart asf tho
Now enjoy a little bit of coasting before the next level drudgery begins!
I miss the pre deposit days sometimes, but there was like 6 or 8 weeks after submitting where it just seemed like things were done and accounted for and that was kind of the best IMO.
Edit:
Oh shoot you said submitted and I was thinking deposited. Yeah you're in for the shitty part next 😂. Just remember that your committee doesn't know where the bodies are buried, only you do and it all still counts!
I come back to say congratulations once again, because what you did was amazing! Congratulations!! Tell us we we can start to call you Dr.Fossilesque :-)
Fuckin nerd!
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Probably a kiss-less virgin too.
Playing with rocks & old papers all day...



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