There'a a lot that I could say about what all has transpired over these past few weeks as we are getting down to the wire. Many of them would probably sound like long rants about some pretty frustrating parts of this process, but I have committed to minimizing how much I allow myself to focus on the negative.
What I will say is that today, as I sit in the Atlanta office of one of my dear friends from college, I feel like things are coming together.
After submitting my draft about a month ago, I took a few weeks away from the document to let my mind reset. Just about a week and a half ago, after having received no formal feedback from my committee, I embarked on another review of my data and a fourth go at my analysis. I started to unearth themes and explanatory models began to come alive in ways that really helped me feel like I had conducted a study and developed some important and valuable findings.
For the past half hour, I just sat here and began to type up notes based on recently developed graphs from exploring other features of the qualitative software I'm using (yes, this totally sounds like I'm geeing out…I am). It really helped me feel like things were coming alive; like I could really stand in front of this defense committee and rock out confidently in my work.
I guess that's a pretty important feeling to have just weeks out from graduation…especially when you're not sure when the defense date is…but at least I can rest a little easier and feel more confident in my work.
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