Successful Master's defence - phew

[Nathan]

I successfully defended my Master's and am now onto the PhD. Feels good to be done, apart from corrections and everything which shouldn't take much more than a week. Been really busy with this and some personal crap so it feels good to put this to bed so I can focus on the rest. Phew.

 

[samoth]

Congrats!

I didn't think they called it a "Master's defense" unless you were in a terminal Master's program. Huh.

 

[jackangel]

did you throw any arm bars? any shots to the throat?

elbow strikes?

 

[Raptorex]

your dissertation will make your master's defense feel like kindergarten..

congrats anyway.

 

[samoth]

g mu nu! g mu nu!

 

[javaguru]

Congrats

 

[redguru]

Congratulations, did you already buy your stole for ceremonies?

 

[Nathan]

your dissertation will make your master's defense feel like kindergarten..

congrats anyway.

Thanks to everyone. I don't know, my thesis was like 125 pages which is getting close to the length of some PhD theses in my field (around 200 pages). I actualyl wasn't really all that nervous for this one and I don't think I'll be too bad for my PhD defense ina few years.

Samoth - Canada's version of a Master's is different than it is in the states (you very well may know all this). In Canada, you are almost always forced to defend a Master's before going on to the PhD, and often you change schools and supervisors and everything. I am going to stay I think since I have more stuff I want to get published and still like it here - though I am back and forth all the time.

 

[samoth]

Thanks to everyone. I don't know, my thesis was like 125 pages which is getting close to the length of some PhD theses in my field (around 200 pages). I actualyl wasn't really all that nervous for this one and I don't think I'll be too bad for my PhD defense ina few years.

Samoth - Canada's version of a Master's is different than it is in the states (you very well may know all this). In Canada, you are almost always forced to defend a Master's before going on to the PhD, and often you change schools and supervisors and everything. I am going to stay I think since I have more stuff I want to get published and still like it here - though I am back and forth all the time.

You enroll in a PhD program, and can be forced to change advisors?!

By the way, what was the general subject of your thesis?

 

[Nathan]

You enroll in a PhD program, and can be forced to change advisors?!

By the way, what was the general subject of your thesis?

I did stellar collisions type of stuff - well we were looking for that but the data was more indicative of the prevalence of binary mergers in star clusters than it was of collisions (I concluded collisions don't happen as much as they originally thought).

In Canada, you enroll for a Master's, do that for two years, tehn you enroll for a PhD. No one applies directly for a PhD out of undergrad - it goes master's, then PhD but sometimes a supervisor will allow their student to not do the defense and just carry the same project into the PhD. It is different in every country though. In England, you can have you PhD by the time you are 25. No one respects you or anything, especially in North America, but they still call you Dr. In fact, if you want to come over to Canada with an English "PhD", we call that your Master's degree and then you start your PhD.

 

[samoth]

I did stellar collisions type of stuff - well we were looking for that but the data was more indicative of the prevalence of binary mergers in star clusters than it was of collisions (I concluded collisions don't happen as much as they originally thought).

In Canada, you enroll for a Master's, do that for two years, tehn you enroll for a PhD. No one applies directly for a PhD out of undergrad - it goes master's, then PhD but sometimes a supervisor will allow their student to not do the defense and just carry the same project into the PhD. It is different in every country though. In England, you can have you PhD by the time you are 25. No one respects you or anything, especially in North America, but they still call you Dr. In fact, if you want to come over to Canada with an English "PhD", we call that your Master's degree and then you start your PhD.

Interesting!

I know England has a pretty different system... and they focus on their field of study much more in undergrad, whereas in the US we have around two years worth of required liberal arts in a bunch of fields.

I enjoy hearing about other country's educational systems, as I'm not entirely fond of the way the US's system works.

 

[Raptorex]

Trust me, a Masters Thesis is applying methodology, a PhD Dissertation is developing a new methodology...very different, it's like playing a hit song on guitar versus writing it.

You are making a very big error in judgement if you weigh this task in pages...my dissertation took 6 years, my thesis took 1.5 (under one of the best in a scientific field).

Good luck.

Thanks to everyone. I don't know, my thesis was like 125 pages which is getting close to the length of some PhD theses in my field (around 200 pages). I actualyl wasn't really all that nervous for this one and I don't think I'll be too bad for my PhD defense ina few years.

Samoth - Canada's version of a Master's is different than it is in the states (you very well may know all this). In Canada, you are almost always forced to defend a Master's before going on to the PhD, and often you change schools and supervisors and everything. I am going to stay I think since I have more stuff I want to get published and still like it here - though I am back and forth all the time.

 

[Gymgurl]

Congrats....all that hard work payed off!

 

[heatherrae]

I successfully defended my Master's and am now onto the PhD. Feels good to be done, apart from corrections and everything which shouldn't take much more than a week. Been really busy with this and some personal crap so it feels good to put this to bed so I can focus on the rest. Phew.

CONGRATS! It will be over before you know it. Do you know what you want to do with your PHD when you are finished?