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?
Thanks. And I need to die some day, otherwise I'll be stranded in the infinite with morose sods like Dr Manhattan. 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.Any post-doc plans yet?