So, finally, I’m done with my “Test” Thesis Defence. For those not used to the Japanese system of graduate studies, six months before you graduate, you need to perform a “mock examination”, where you do your thesis Defence in the same conditions as your final Defence, including to the same commitee. This committee will judge […]
After about three weeks of pretty good weather, it is raining again in Tokyo. I have a love-hate relationship with the rain, which includes much more hate than love, actually :-/. Walking out on the rain, with an umbrella over my head, makes all those blue, depressing feelings and thoughts assault me. I can’t really […]
Late June, I wrote into my calendar “Thesis countdown – 6 months”. Today I stopped to consolitade my tasks, and just realized that I’m down to two and a half months until my first thesis deadline (the pre-thesis comitee – don’t really have a good name for this in english). Of course, I’m nowhere near […]