How big a deal is your viva?
There are tens of thousands of them every year in the UK.
Maybe over a thousand in your university.
Even at a department level there could be dozens.
And your examiners may do four or five per year.
And despite all of the work that leads up to it by everyone involved, it will probably be over in a few hours, and will probably be similar to a lot of other vivas that have happened before.
Not that special.
Except…
…your research is unique. Your thesis is one-of-a-kind. You’re the only person who has gone on the research journey you’ve completed. To do it all, you have to be amazing.
Special is relative. From the perspective that matters – yours – the viva is special.
And so are you.
