[Lil'freeper]

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.

[2Jedismom]

That's just the thing that hacks me off more than anything. All of this stuff could have and should have been addressed long ago.

It's why I think that back in the Fall semester when Steve up and said he was done and ready to graduate that they kinda panicked...like Dr. J never thought he actually would finish and suddenly he had. Then the paper he'd worked on for so long and he hadn't paid any attention to suddenly wasn't "thesis worthy".

Man, I'll never forget that night Steve showed me that email. I can feel my blood pounding in my neck even now.

God bless the committee members in Stillwater. They really stood up for Steve right then.