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Thesis Defense
« on: July 27, 2004, 12:33:18 PM »
Well, I'm off to defend my Master's Thesis.  Wish me luck.  (It shouldn't be too hard, what with my thesis being a published novel and all....)
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2004, 12:48:44 PM »
Your complacency will be your downfall.

Maybe, it being BYU, they'll take the book-written-by-LDS-authors approach, and say that it's "supposed to edify as well as entertain."  And then they'll flunk you because you didn't include a moral.
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2004, 12:55:42 PM »
Good luck! Have fun! :)  Who's on your committee again? Other than Sally, I mean.
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2004, 01:29:06 PM »
good luck. Eat a celebratory donut for me!
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2004, 04:00:44 PM »
Ah.  Well, that's good to have out of the way.  Now I just have one more semester of coursework....

Yes, I passed.  The committee was Taylor, Perry, and Bennion.
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2004, 04:49:12 PM »
Congratulations!
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2004, 07:24:00 PM »
Good job that man, good job.
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2004, 03:06:24 AM »
Yay!
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2004, 06:38:34 PM »
lol.  In an interesting twist, Dr. Perry (who was on my thesis committee) emailed me today and told me he wanted to use ELANTRIS as a textbook in the BYU sf lit class.  It would be replacing RUNELORDS....  (Hope Dave doesn't hear about this.)
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2004, 08:57:13 PM »
What makes that more disturbing, EUOL, is that two nights ago I had a dream that I was taking a literature class at BYU from you and one of the texts was Elantris.
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #10 on: July 28, 2004, 10:55:00 PM »
it would be kinda hard for it to be used as a textbook before it gets published...
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2004, 12:06:57 AM »
Details, details.
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2004, 04:26:53 AM »
Wasn't your thesis on WoK anyway? Yet he wants to use Elantris? (I almost typed Atlantis, there...)
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2004, 04:39:23 AM »
No, it was ELANTRIS.  It was going to be WoK until I published ELANTIRS--then things changed.  I figured I was going to be going through the editing process for ELANTRIS anyway, so I might as well focus all of my energies on it.
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Re: Thesis Defense
« Reply #14 on: July 29, 2004, 01:33:55 PM »
Speaking of your published works, EVOL, where and when can, or will, we be able to get a copy?  I have not had the chance to read your book yet, and am interested in doing so.

Congrats on the defense!
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