I finished my draft a month ago right? Well, I got the first two chapters back from my second reader. He really went to town on it, and I am sorry to day that it needed it. My hope was that the other chapters would not be as bad. I enter the correction and hand them off to my third reader (yes I am required to have more than 2). Spring Break comes, and people are away. I try to schedule my defense date only to find that out of 15 different days my committee members’ schedules only overlap by 2 hours on 2 different afternoons. Right.
Fast forward to last week and I get the news from my second reader that the remaining chapters will take him too long to edit and that they read like a first draft. So they come back to me and my advisor (also my first reader). Now we had a chance to read all the chapters and gave his blessing. He wants me done and finished (no complaints from me), but there is apparently a standard of quality to maintain for dissertations coming out of the Boston University Department of Chemistry. So now I am on my ass editing. After reading the chapters a month later I can see that I really need to work on my editing skills.
So I should be able to get chapter 4 into my advisor by Friday. They back to the other readers. When will this process end?
