Dr. Reed Cartwright has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation. Reed's a Panda's Thumb contributor and theoretical population geneticist. We'll forgive him for the second point, seeing as how he did have my academic grandfather as an advisor. The Panda's Thumb was the great inspiration for me to start blogging. I found a link to the website from EvolDir, and the rest was history.
I'm a day late on this. Some of us are still working toward that elusive dissertation and fall behind on things like blog reading.
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The other day, it occurred to me that I have a goodly number of friends who have been in Ph.D. programs (and may still be "in" the program in some more or less official way), and who have more or less finished their graduate research, but who haven't managed to get their dissertations written.
Of special interest to Nathan, evidence that the process of dissertation writing is the same across disciplines:
One of my graduate students reminded my co-instructors and me of a fun internet tool called Wordle which takes tex
"I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed.