I really need some advice from people who have been through the viva process.
My viva is a few days away and I am panicking. I have been going through the thesis and I have loads and loads of mistakes. Really, I mean loads.
It was such a rush at the end to submit in time to meet my funding body's deadline and I wasn't coping very well emotionally at the time.
I have many missing and incomplete footnotes, mislabelled and misnumbered section headings, paragraphs that don't follow one from another because something was inserted between them or which tail off without coming to a conclusion, as well as an incomplete bibliography. To take one example, I have just found a paragraph which begins 'So, Smith thinks X....' when the previous paragraph isn't even talking about X and there should clearly be some sort of transition here which are just missing.
I don't know what to do because I can barely read for panicking and I am scared I will just crumble the minute I walk in the room and talk them out of awarding me anything because of these mistakes. I really feel like I need to defend what I have managed to do and what I have achieved but it just seems pointless when there are so many glaring errors. I am so ashamed of what I have submitted and feel like this means the end of an academic career for me.
There are so many corrections I don't think I can even come up with a full list of them in time for the viva.
What should I do?