A while back I posted on the re-printing of the Dodgess' PhD. Needless to say, as this is a modern day PhD, things were not quite straightforward. Faced with a deadline of 18th June to submit hard-bound copies even by the time it was taken out of the box in the UK it needed some attention; it looked like a hungry mouse had nibbled on one copy of the appendix...
Nonetheless, thanks to a former lodger of mine, two copies were soft bound and handed in. The internal examiner had a look through and was, this time, happy with all the corrections (phew) just the external examiner to go.
After he'd had it two weeks the internal dropped him an email to find out his thoughts. The reply was 'well, see, I've kind of been overseas a little bit, and it's exam time for undergraduates, so frankly I've not even opened it.' We had a similar occurence at the end of last year with the internal examiner, so again we played the Singapore card; the internal wrote back along the lines of 'flights are already booked, and we need her to graduate in July. So all comments within a week.'
And then, a few days later, the email we'd hoped for... 'the external examiner has accepted the corrections'. This caused the Dodgess to shriek, loudly... We happened to be on the phone when she read the email, but I also heard it two second later as the true sound reached our flat from her mother's.
All of this is an enormous relief. When meeting for a quick cup of tea after work yesterday the Dodgess was noticeably happier, and had far more of a srping in her step. As for me, I'm just enormously proud of her. That she managed to complete such a massive piece of work over the past 4 years.
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