After 3 years of my research regarding the topic of truck-bicycle safety, the day of my PhD defense was set on 2.2.2018. I have to admit, that despite the thesis had been successfully approved and I was training a lot on my both public lectures, I was becoming more and more nervous, the closer that day was. Here are few pics from Friday-Monday.
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| The entrance to our department. Wow, it is really happening... |
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| I had two lectures - the morning one was on the topic of pedestrian-cyclists coexistence (I liked that one), the afternoon one was about my PhD topic (already little tired of that topic:). The audiance was in good mood in the start, and me as well... |
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| The discussion after the afternoon lecture took almost two hours and I was getting exhausted. But it was difficult for the spectators as well...imagine to listen to me for 4 hours in total... |
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| My dear collegue and friend Ray decided to ask me the last question of the day and I was not able to answer! Uaaaa, that was not great ending:) |
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| Eirin (chairwoman of comittee), Anne (second opponent), Kelly (my cool supervisor), me (looking horrible:) and Aliaksei (first opponent) |
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| I was really glad that my father and brother came to support me |
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| The beer celebration party at our department under the supervision of my father and Liliya. Waimea and Nelson APA had success. |
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| Even Jonas and Tore showed up, great to see them! |
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| Freezing tour de Trondheim on Saturday |
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| and the test of my PhD drill gift in Bymarka |
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| was pretty good, as I got my two biggest winter trout (almost a kilo each) |
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| so, thanks a lot to everybody, particularly to Belma, and good luck to the rest of my PhD collegues! |
