After having spent the vast majority of the last 2 months working on my OP and defense, it’s finally over, and I passed just fine with no corrections. Dare I say the defense was even, well, fun. Therefore, I’m finally, officially, a doctoral candidate. All that’s left for me between now and my Ph.D. is, well … almost everything important. At least everything important to my own research and career in the future. Of course in the grand scheme of things this is far more stressful but at least Purdue seems to think I’m worthy of a Ph.D. At some point I’ll put up my slides/paper on my personal page. Cheers.

I put up my OP paper. You can take a look at it here.