I know that that is very true. I suppose when you've spent 3 years working toward it it is disappointing. Its just put me off the whole thing,and people who knew about it, well I dont know what to tell them...

Sigh.

I wouldn't be so annoyed if I hadn't worked so hard. I suppose its just gutting when you really work yourself ragged and still dont do well. ah well!

Thank you,

i feel very disappointed like I have wasted my time for 3 years. I worked really hard for my viva, possibly too hard hence the exhausted blank brain. Im going through a 'whats the point' phase. I don't even want to tell people how I did and I feel very ashamed about it. I just wish I could close the door and leave it all there. I don't know I just feel like maybe people in the department will be laughing at me or something.
:-(

Hello everyone.

I just had my viva on tuesday, during which my head went blank and essentially I rambled on for 2 hours. When I went back in again they told me they had all enjoyed my thesis, were really pleased with the new research, thought it was relatively ground breaking in the area as it hadn't been done before. They then suggested some things which they thought would make it better. It is very multidisciplinary so I had to make some harsh judgements about which areas I was going to be looking at and which areas I wasnt.

So they suggested some more areas which they thought would make the thesis better ready for a book publication (thats what they said). My chair said that they thought the corrections could be done between 3 months and up to a year although they thought it wouldnt take that long.

My supervisor was in the room at the time and he asked the examiners that surely I wouldn't be needing another viva then. The external said no, the internal said she didn't know she supposed it would have to take it into consideration.

Maybe I should have paid more attention but I was a bit rabbit in headlights at the time. When we left my supervisor said 'so are you disappointed then?' and there was a lot of sympathetic faces all round.

This might sound mad but Im not really sure what this means, I know I didn't get my PhD but some people say that you have in a way passed, because you do the revisions your examiners have set out then show it to them for their approval. And some people call this a fail and say that you have to do the changes and resubmit your thesis again because they haven't passed it and you have to go through the whole procedure again.

Anyone any thoughts. I dont know what to feel really. My supervisor has been really quiet since. I know all unis are different but Im confused.