It's official.

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Wow! One month for a whole thesis?!
My PhD thesis had a chapter in the appendix that, alone, took me a month to write!! (technically, it took me a month to research how to go from one mathematical expression to another in hundreds of little undocumented steps - writing was 2 days).

Congratz! New life ahead!
Enjoy!

It was a joint degree so the dissertation was only worth 1/3rd of my degree and therefore only had to be between 12,000 and 15,000 words. I'm a fast writer though. In my undergrad when they required 2000 word papers, I could write it in 3 or 4 hours start to finish. And mine was just 4 of those papers with a short intro and conclusion. The appendices were short as well only 5 of 1-3 pages each.

I couldn't imagine doing a PhD thesis.... I want to do a PhD but the thought of having to write 100,000 words on one thing just makes me nauseous. Well done to you!

Thanks!
Fingers crossed, it will pass.

hmmm... I find it odd that you have to count words.
I just wrote what I did and all the mathematical proofs required, then added a bunch of images (always cool when your PhD is in something that involves image analysis) and you know how each image is worth a thousand words!

The not-so-cool part was the cost of printing half a thesis in color (times 8)... ouch!

EDIT: and I have no idea how many words my thesis had... lots, I guess. Over 100 pages, but half were images.