re: #192 mmmirele

ETA: My shock was that the grilling was far worse than the questioning we got in law school when reciting cases. I had thought of grad school as slightly more collegial. Nope.

A dissertation defense can go a number of ways. My actual defense (same as you exs, five people, all with Ph.D.s) was fairly genial with some hard questions, but no real arguments. The final year before my defense was a living hell.

Never again.