Yesterday afternoon I showed Molvig a final draft of my defense presentation and he gave it the thumbs up with only a minor change which has already been done. I never did get any comments on the last revision of the thesis itself, but I take that to mean he's happy with where it's at.

He left for Boston this morning and Chris is already there. So I'm basically done with the thesis and the preparations for the defense.

There was some nonsense where apparently the department requires the defending student to provide food for everyone at the defense, which no one told me about until this week, but one of the admins at MIT agreed to take care of it for me. Nice of them to stick one more pointless burden on what is sure to be stressed out and overloaded students. Insult to injury, sorta.

Anyway, at this point I'm just packing up my office, backing up my files, and printing out my slides. It's a nice day off. Tomorrow, I fly to Boston!