My advisor was laboring under this notion that my thesis defense was not open to the public in any way (so a shorter talk would make sense, because why talk for 40 minutes to people who have read your dissertation). I feel like the department academic advisor: "Doesn't anyone read the handbook!" It's on the school calendar. I told everyone to come if they hadn't heard me blather already.
So maybe I'm talking for 40 minutes, maybe for 25, maybe for 10 if no outside people show up. Who knows! It's a mystery.
Don't bother to be prepared, kids, cuz you're just going to have to wing it anyway.
(Lest anyone think otherwise, my advisor is great... I'm just not very thrilled with this misunderstanding).
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