So John was
supposed to defend his thesis this Friday. This has been postponed several times thanks to his professor's hectic schedule and then Hurricane Ike. He assembled a team of professors to present to and just found out a few days ago that the ChemE professor would be unable to attend because his brother passed away. (John was bummed because he said if you have the ChemE guy behind you, everyone else will agree it's a good project!) His Civil professor just informed him TODAY that of course they can't do this without everyone attending so he'll have to reschedule again!!
Let me tell you, John is not happy right now...
I think he is just ready to finish this PhD and move on.
I'll keep y'all posted so you know when you can start calling John "Dr. Hagan" j/k