That is the best comment I have heard about this situation thank you for being awesome and understanding

Midwesterner. Lots of waving/nod-smiling here. This land is full of Norwegian Lutherans. Enough said.

good luck, fb! you will do fine. if your advisor is in any way decent and responsible, s/he would not let you proceed with the defense. if you fail, it looks bad for them, too.

PS Good luck tomorrow, and whatever you do, don't take valium and then smoke a joint before you go in. A friend tells me that's a VERY BAD idea.

You're fine, as long as the thesis is logical and you haven't got any major experimental flaws you are good. I know people who have passed with literally no data, just a ton of negative results that are probably more that the experiments were impossible. I also know people who have got a PhD from a masters length…

No advice other than in the 4 years I have been with my department, no one has defended and failed. There are varying degrees of what they will ask you about in a thesis defense but that is about it.

No, I'm sure you're not! My point was just that the cases I've seen have been fairly extreme, and there were other indicators going in that things were not well. One was a student who had used up the max time allotted for the degree and gotten two extensions, and tried to defend even though everyone knew he wasn't…

Good luck! I'm terrified for my (master's) thesis defence. It's such a nervewracking, awful thing. Trust that, after this many years of working on your dissertation, YOU KNOW YOUR SHIT. You're going to rock it. Make excellent plans to celebrate after!

Oh man...I am struggling to write my thesis now and you have kicked me back into fear for my life mode. That being said...I feel the best way to approach a defense is to own everything, from the presentation to your oral answers. You literally wrote the book, you know your stuff better than anyone. And you will kick…

I love the name Emma, but know I couldn't name any kids I have Emma (because if I have kids it would probably be within the next 5-7 years), so instead I named my cat Emma. That way, I still can use the name, but don't stick hypothetical future daughter with the same name as 5 other girls in her class.

You can only name your child Sophia if you're naming her in honor of this great lady:

but that's usually the only thing anyone can ever think to say about small towns.

I CALL SATAN'S TOOTHPICKS AS A BAND NAME.

Right, but how does that punish the sluts for having sex? Isn't that what we're actually trying to do here?

I'm not shocked. Part of me wonders if the reason for restricting contraceptives is to prevent women from having safe and healthy sex lives (without shame.)
Then again, nobody would be that intentionally malicious... right?

PFFFT! Don't you know!? IUDs are just as bad as abortions. They are Satan's toothpicks(?) When a woman uses an IUD it is like she is murdering an infant every single month! IUDs HAVE KILLED MILLIONS OF BABIES! STOP KILLING BABIES!!!

And isn't it also amazing how many women apparently wanted those long-term options and couldn't afford it? Why, women could have been not getting abortions ALL THIS TIME.

Sorry, I don't understand. All I heard was "blah blah blah sluts blah blah blah."

Those harlots!

Jealous! At PP they don't do prescriptions, they just give them to me. But there were many times when I got it from a doctor where I would end up paying full-price (which wasn't that much more at the time) for an extra pack so I could have a backup. I think it may have been an insurance thing and not a doctor thing…