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Here's an update...all I know at this point.

Steve got the paper with what just has to be the final "fixes" turned in to his advisor this morning.

He then went to Stillwater on the BOB to speak with the other two guys on his committee. Hope of all hope is that he gets signed off officially from these guys.

He also intended to meet with the formatting guy again, because he made some repairs to the formatting even after he turned it in on Friday.

Depending on what happens today...he might have a pretty easy day of it tomorrow...or, he might have to go *back* to Stillwater for the other committee member's signatures, if they're aren't ready to sign today.

Then Wednesday he has to go back for final instructions from the format guy and possibly the committee signatures if they still haven't signed off. We're really really hoping that Dr. JBY will have finished going over it and be ready to sign off on it on Wednesday, before Steve heads back for the meeting with the format guy. Still, that might not happen till Thursday and a nightmare situation would be Friday.

So every day has so many variables and we just have to wait and see how it works out. Steve could very well come home with the Stillwater committee member's sigs...that would make today pretty good!

As Forrest Gump says..."One less thang..."

I'll let you know as soon as I can when I find out anything.

Not that it'll make any of you guys feel better about the thesis situation, but I've been dealing with something similar. I've had a big project going - the data is finally done, the report is finally written. When the data was first finished, it was reviewed by management. This was the go-ahead to write the report. Then the report got reviewed... by the same people who reviewed the data. "Oh wait! Why did you do that this way?" "How come you used this input rather than that?" And so on. The answer to all of their complaints was, "Because you said it was ok when I submitted the study proposal *months* ago, and you said it was ok when we reviewed the data *months* ago. If the error is so big now, why didn't you catch it before?"

Ooh ho ho ho. The penalty for my impudence is to re-run my study again to "see if it'll make a difference." The implication being that if it does make a difference I'll have to rewrite the report... from scratch. Phoey! I re-ran the data at the expense of other projects and whaddya know? It made no significant difference. The powers that be were *not* amused. But at least I can move forward with fixing grammatical errors. Heh.