Thank you LM! (and new pics)
Today I saw the master defense of a friend in my lab. To tell the truth, I was a little disappointed. Not on my friend’s presentation, which was allright, but on the professors who were watching. It seems to me from their questions that they didn’t took the time to at least peruse over my friend’s thesis before the defense.
I compare it with my own thesis defense, some 2 years ago. LM (one of the professors) opened his copy of my thesis, completely leafed through, and full of red ink. Made some insightiful remarks regarding my research, and after the defense handed me a page with 30 questions I should ask myself if I were to continue researching that topic (actually, 8 of those questions were answered during the thesis defense). The other professor also made questions more relevant to the content of the thesis, than that of the presentation.
In fact, my then advisor told me, when I asked how to prepare the presentation, “consider that the professors have read and understood your thesis”. I really hope they do the same this time around, for my current research is turning out to be much more interesting than my previous one.
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On an unrelated note, I have uploaded more pictures to PICASA. While it bothers me a little to use yet another online service to store my data (I would much rather have them on a local disk), the hosting service where this webpage is located is almost full, and I do not feel like putting my personal pictures on the Lab’s web server. But Picasa’s service is actually quite nice, in spite of not being able to exclusively search for tags, and the lack of a Linux Client.
Enough ranting, here is the link:
I have uploaded the pictures to my vietnam and hokkaido trips. Enjoy!
February 20th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
About hokkaido pics,
Claus was with his camera and I was with mine. So he took pictures of me and I took pictures of him. That’s why you can’t see Claus in his album link, but there are plenty of Claus’s pics in my album about hokkaido ->
http://picasaweb.google.com/mariliamelo/Hokkaido
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:14 pm
teus comentários sobre banca que nao lê o teor da tese me lembra minha (humilde) monografia de graduação. um professor que obviamente nao tinha lido, só fez perguntas estúpidas, fora do contexto, e depois me deu o unico 7 (os outros 2 me deram 10 e 9,0) sob o argumento que “tinha poucas paginas”. na época eras muito pequeno, e acho que nunca cheguei a te contar esse “episódio”. Porisso, entendi bem o que disseste, e como deve ter te feito bem, ter um examinador tao atento, e interessado.
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:14 pm
ah marlia, valeu! ahahahaha
March 17th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
After my master’s defense, my advisor said to me… “it went great! the professors had read your thesis!” and he sounded both happy and surprised, and I was… surprised that he was surprised. I had assumed they would read, but since then I’ve learned that this is not always - and even not usually - the case… Sad.