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Dissertation Finished and Submitted

Posted by Paul Macklin

1 June 2007 at 10:40 AM PDT (UTC +?)

Well, I just traded 2 × 220 heavy pages of dissertation for a single sheet that reads "dissertation manuscript accepted" Whew, what a relief! It's finally done, and the degree should be official in a few days.

It's been an interesting 24 hours or so. I had a burst of energy and motivation around 1:00 this morning, so I decided to print out all the black and white pages of my dissertation on the laser writer at home. At last seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, I filled out all the forms and schlepped myself over to Kinko's at 8 this morning to print the remaining color pages. After spending another hour double-checking the manuscripts, I headed to the University Archives, and that was that! Woohoo! :-)

In other great news, I've been having some great disussions with Vittorio Cristini on my position at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. I'm going to head there as an (non-tenure-track) assistant professor and do some interdisciplinary cancer modeling and simulation with the biologists and doctors there. I'm very excited!

Well, back to work on our joint paper for me. But once again, woohoo! :-) -- Paul