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It's been a while since I've blogged on theEzone, but not for want of having something to say. Rather, time has been the issue. However, I thought a short note on where we are up to so far this year might spur on a few near-completers. Since January 1st this year there have been 114 completions lodged with the Graduate Research School, and 10 ...

Yamin Ma submitted her PhD thesis today. She doesn't run a blog, so I'm making sure that recognition for her achievement reaches as many in the UWA community as possible. Yamin's thesis ended up with the title ''Vegetation as a biotic driver for the formation of soil geochemical anomalies for mineral exploration of ...

Yesterday I achieved what I had been waiting for so long to do - thesis submission! Here's how it happened: Firstly, I went through and did a final check for minor errors e.g. spelling. It was a good thing I did, because there were still two that I had missed. I didn't work off the pdf for this. Instead, I went through all of the words in the ...

My PhinisheD mug, received after submission of my thesis to GRSO.

One of the temporarily bound copies of my thesis, with the Phinished mug in the background.

At long last, I'm finally at the stage of reading through my entire thesis as a single unit. I had been thinking that I could submit soon after that, but alas, no. One of my supervisors is jetting off overseas and won't be in a position to sign off on it for almost two weeks *sigh*. This morning's info at the Research Careers week seemed to ring ...

In a period of Dave Hughes-inspired anger, I think I'm about to lose it. I have just received comments back from a large chapter, one which I thought was almost the best. Unfortunately, there are more than 85 things still wrong with it, according to my supervisor. All my hopes and dreams of being rid of this thing are continually shattered, and I ...

Today marks 500 days since I officially began writing my thesis. Notice that I didn't say that I've been writing for 500 days, because there are some weekends in there when I didn't do any writing. I really had hoped to have submitted before the big 500, but alas, yet again, the dream has died. In fact, when I mentioned to one of my supervisors ...

I will be needing to fill out a ''Submission of thesis'' form in the near future. At the bottom of the first page, there is field marked ''GRSO Use Only''. However, there are three fields to fill out at the top of the second page (RFCD, SEO and research activity type). I do not know if these are also for the GRSO to fill out, or for me to fill ...

I'm sorry to say, but today marks my 4 1/2 year mark of being a PhD student. And I am even sorrier to say today that my scholarship expired. So, I'm going to be 'roughing it' until I can find any sort of employment, the search for which is still being unfruitful. I submitted my nomination of examiners form this week, so that should be on its way ...