Well I finished up the last few corrections yesterday and I go the School of Pharmacy and the Graduate School Deans’ signatures. Converted it to a pdf file and uploaded. Once I turned in my signature sheet I’m done. Now just to make sure my grades get put up (for my research seminar and research).

Phew! After my advisor informing me at 8:30 this morning that I needed a copy of my thesis for my defense subsequently followed by my computer’s battery dying (unknown reason), printer jam, printer being schizo, crashing PrimoPDF (twice), then finally converting it to a pdf (my ChemDraw structures didn’t show up) and getting onto another computer connected to a local printer (which only prints 10 pages/min) and nearly having a panic attack I finally showed up for my defense a few minutes late. All went well, I gave my brief synopsis of my research. Which was followed by a round of questions, then a break, then another round of questions. But at the end of it all, everyone enjoyed my thesis and I passed with flying colors.

Now if only I could convice everyone to STOP bugging me to consider getting my PhD. As of right now, I want to be out of school and be a member of society and get some experience.

So I successfully presented my research to my department (or at least those who bothered to show up) earlier today. Only about 1/4 of the department actually bothered to come. Which was fine with me, except I was kind of looking forward to showing all their graduate students where the bar should be. Other than talking too quickly, I did a good job. I was able to effectively answer all of the questions (they were a lot easier than I had anticipated). And my advisor (and I) got a nice compliment from one of the faculty members in the audience. He had started it by asking me what part of my research I had actually done… I think he was attempting to try and show that most of the work had been done by someone else for me. Fortunately for me, I was able to say everything but the synthesis of compounds that had been previously synthesized in our laboratory. His only response was along the lines that my advisor had set the bar high for not only master’s students but doctoral students as well. We’ll just have to see what my committee has to say about my research tomorrow.