Microblog of the 48 h hours around my to my PhD defense.<\/p>\n
09:00 – Working on the PhD presentation 07:30 – Good morning! 05:30 – Getting up, I have a train to catch Microblog of the 48 h hours around my to my PhD defense. 15.12.2016 09:00 – Working on the PhD presentation 13:00 – Short walk to Bella Casa to order 18 Pizzas for tomorrow 14:00 – Chat with other PhD students about previous oral exams. 14:30 – Last chat with my advisor before the defense, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life_and_stuff","tag-university"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p15PpI-x2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n13:00 – Short walk to Bella Casa<\/a> to order 18 Pizzas for tomorrow
\n14:00 – Chat with other PhD students about previous oral exams.
\n14:30 – Last chat with my advisor before the defense, as usual we talk about everything an nothing.
\n15:30 – Final edits to my presentation.
\n17:30 – Presentation dry run with useful feedback from Herbert
\n18:30 – Christmas social at the office
\n19:15 – Shopping for beer, champagne and snacks
\n19:45 – Delivering beer and snacks to the uni campus
\n20:30 – Last minute studying of “Microwave Engineering” by David M. Pozar<\/a>
\n23:00 – Brushing my teeth and going to sleep
\n24:00 – Realizing that there won’t be much sleep tonight.<\/p>\n16.12.2016<\/h3>\n
\n08:00 – Ironing a white shirt
\n08:20 – Final dry run before the actual thing
\n08:50 – Realizing that I have my black shoes at my parents place. – The dark blue will have to do
\n09:00 – Short walk to the university
\n09:20 – Connecting to the projector. Having my friend Reinhard print some last minute paperwork.
\n09:45 – First guests arrive
\n10:00 – The show starts
\n11:15 – Yay! You may now call me Dr. Schmid
\n11:45 – The party starts: Champagne, beer and pizza for everyone!
\n13:00 – So many people have shown up to party with me! Me, happy!
\n16:00 – We move to a pub
\n17:00 – We move to a restaurant
\n21:00 – I arrive back home – still, happy!
\n22:00 – I fall asleep.<\/p>\n17.12.2016<\/h3>\n
\n07:15 – Boarding the train to Flughafen Wien.
\n10:20 – Boarding the plane to Athens
\n13:45 – Landing in Athens
\n14:30 – Boarding the Metro
\n15:30 – Arrival at the hotel for the Region 8 OpCom meeting
\n16:00 – Joining my last IEEE Region 8 OpCom Meeting
\nxx:xx – Still feeling happy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"