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am_Unition · 1031 days ago · link · · parent · post: Pubski: February 2, 2022

I'm on the way out

Do you mean on the way out of your PhD program, or are you fucking dying?????

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Devac · 1031 days ago · link ·

Wow, I guess the best way to really learn euphemisms is to commit them blindly and unwaveringly. The former, my thesis was accepted for the committee review last week.

+discuss+discuss

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am_Unition · 1031 days ago · link ·

I'm literally breathing a massive sigh of relief.

You are absolutely allowed to graduate.

You are absolutely NOT allowed to die.

Congratulations :)!! Any post-doc plans yet?

+discuss+discuss

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Devac · 1031 days ago · link ·

Thanks. And I need to die some day, otherwise I'll be stranded in the infinite with morose sods like Dr Manhattan.

Any post-doc plans yet?

Well, neither China nor USA, so not much beyond 'abroad'. Quite a few places doing condensed matter also branch into topological physics, and there's hardly a place that doesn't do something with some variant of DFTs, but didn't do much about it yet.

Frankly, it's FAR too early to talk about it beyond habitually-bitter, cynical grumbling. Assuming no administrative inertia (come on) and reviewers not taking their sweet-ass time, I might be able to defend around April. August is realistic. October-December is absolutely possible (or at least I think so). Not exactly good layout for planning.