To My Younger Self
I haven’t posted in more than two months, almost three. Here’s what I did: I defended and filed my dissertation, and officially became a Dr. The Weeks Before the Defense In my program, the convention is to send your committee a full dissertation draft between two weeks and a month before your defense. So for most of July, that’s what I was doing: writing. At the same time, I was working on a lengthy fellowship application and taking a two-week NeuroAI summer course I’d committed to months earlier. ...