South College DBA Journey Completed

[3ichael7ambert]

good job. i hope your profession will continue to bring you joy

Thank you

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Could you let us know how your Defense was like? Could you do a powerpoint to carry the presentation?

I did it after work on zoom. For privacy reasons, I won't say who but it a group of higher ups. You get a lot of prep time before the final defense. You submit your powerpoint but you are not suppose to talk about it because they already review and pass the powerpoint ahead of time. The defense is really like the final nail in the coffin. They won't let you do it if they don't feel like your ready but you will get ask questions about it. I am a little bias because public speaking is a strong suit for me so I personally ignore my powerpoint the entire time and just spoke about my research and answer the questions with force and vigor as I was kinda already beaten by my job lol and was just ready to be done. It was long if I recall about an hour and half but time itself moves fast when your talking. I did talk for a while though. That my biggest advice is be ready to talk non stop and answer questions confidently about whatever you right. I heard only one person at the time fail her defense but she buckle under pressure and while she was smart from what I heard in the rumors was that she just was not mentally prepare to talk as long. Long story short my advice is be okay with winging it. Don't go off your powerpoint or think you can read slides to the higher ups. That not what they are there for. They are there to make sure before you finish that you are ready to call yourself a Doctor.

Lets say worst case scenerio, one buckles under pressure. I, for one, am hit or miss when it comes to public speaking. Are they allowed to do their defense again?

It would be a bad look ngl because there alot of prep to make sure thta doesn't happen. In the event that happens, you can redo it again and again until you do pass but from what I was told  you come under alot of pressure if you do it more than twice because they get suspicious. What that means I'm not sure tbh. Off record I heard someone kinda joke if you fail 2 or god forbid 3 times they think you didn't write the paper lol.

How many assignments per course and estimated length per assignment?