My Atypical Viva
Later this year I’ll “celebrate” fifteen years since I had my viva, and remembering that makes me realise one more time just how different my viva was to everything I’ve heard since about vivas. Before I had my viva I...
my viva
The Room Was Hot
For all the prep I did, it never occurred to me to think about where my viva was going to be. It was early June, but a warm week. The seminar room, which I was very familiar with, was on the...
Now I Forget
I remember checking in with my supervisor half an hour before my viva and asking him about a key definition. I don’t remember seeing him at all later that day, but he must have been there. Right? I shared an...
“That’s Interesting”
Two words, spoken by my internal examiner, as we approached the end of my viva. Two words that came after he had summarised my final chapter. Two words that followed a summary of “In Chapter 7 you detail your failure...