Last week I successfully defended my Ph.D. I'm so excited and happy about it. It was a long journey and took 7 years for me to graduate from University at Albany. I had to change my advisor so it makes it hard for me to finish it sooner. But anyway, now it's done. My dissertation still needs some correction and after its submission, I'll be officially graduated.
The defense session went pretty well. I was prepared for it despite having some minor last-minute changes. I had some notes in my slides that helped me to narrate fluently in complex concepts. My timing was perfect and I could finish the presentation in 45 minutes. Then I could answer the committees' questions. Some of them were legit errors in the work and some of the defects that I was worry about were ignored by them. But overall, they were satisfied and accepted the thesis.
