五味杂陈

日子一天天的过去，

我们的心情也跟着起伏不定了。

想着很快就会和你见面，

内心五味杂陈，

紧张、兴奋、忧虑、开心、烦恼。。。

还有，你神秘兮兮地不让我们一窥究竟，

更是玩弄着我们的好奇心。

不过，聊以自慰的是，作为补偿，

你让我们看到了难得一见的容颜。

虽然不是很清晰，只能看到大概的轮廓，

却已让我们开心不已。

来，我们打勾勾，

两个月后见！

在这段期间，你要耐心的等候哦！

Another Milestone Achieved

It has been taken almost a month to confirm the date for my proposal defense after the submission is done. Finally, the officer confirmed with me that I'll have my proposal defense two days later when I checked with on Monday. Luckily, I had ready with the presentation slides 2 weeks ago. If not, I'm sure I'll be in big trouble to rush for the preparation. 

Perhaps, due to the early preparation, both mentally and physically about the challenge I'll face, I actually slept quite well last night, unexpectedly. So, today I came in "well-prepared", fresh and energetic, ready with the invisible "bulletproof vest" on, let us finish it!

I quite satisfied with my presentation, I think my supervisor also has the same feeling, at least I able to present it confidently. And here comes the questions from examiners. Well, the first question is already so challenging that it alerted me not to step into examiners' trap! I tried real hard to defense my work (my supervisor had reminded me to be careful before!) and to convince the examiners that my work is worthwhile, though I myself not 100% sure about this (haha...). They spent almost 1 hour to throw all the questions, haih!

"The examiners agreed that you have passed your comprehensive exam, subject to amendments. " Har? So is it pass or fail? I'm waiting for the Chairman to tell me "you have 1 month for correction and re-submit your proposal writing before we release your result". But, there is nothing else from them. 

"Congratulation! You passed!". Finally, the best statement came out from the mouth of examiners. OH! I had passed my comprehensive exam! Yes! Finally!

But, can't be happy for too long. This is only to confirm that I can proceed with my research. There is still a long way to go before I really earned my PhD title. 

Halfway of Journey

Finally, I managed to come to this point after struggling for two and half years of hard work. Although it is just a submission, I'm still grateful to have this small small achievement. The next thing need to do is, pray hard for the coming comprehensive exam, which is the so-called proposal defense. Hopefully, I'm lucky enough to get a not so demanding examiners committee who are kind give me a pass.

I know, it is still a very long way to go for the second half of the journey. No matter how, I'll definitely continue the way down to the end, and complete it!