You are almost to the finish line! By the time I arrived at this course, I thought I was like a rock star. I had been working so hard that I never thought this day would come. I had been in the DRP courses for over two years to this point, but I could finally see the light at the end of the very long tunnel. 

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What You Should Know about BMAL 889

If you are in the ‘new guide’, things are very different for you than they were for me, or even my wife, Michele, in her doctoral journey. 

By the time I was in BMAL 889 it was the fall term of 2024. I waited until the last week of August (summer term) to FINALLY get my IRB approval, which took over 100 days, by the way.

The last week of August meant that I needed A LOT of help from my chair to get everything done and submitted. Remember that piece of advice: form a rock-solid relationship with your chair?

In that last week of August (BMAL 888), I was driving on the freeway for a business trip in Missouri and making my way back to Minneapolis to catch a flight home. It was the Friday of the last day of the course. During the six-hour drive, I would receive notifications that a new message was coming in from either my chair or the admin reviewer. I would pull over at the next rest stop, make the change, and keep on driving. 

I arrived at the airport and I remember vividly that I was waiting for the train to go to the gate and I got the last ping saying that BMAL 888 was approved! 

GREAT! 

The rest of the project flew by. 

By the first week of September, I had dates set up for my interviews.

In the second week of September, I was conducting my data analysis. 

By the first week of October, I had finished Tasks 14-16. 

The last weekend of November, I flew down to Arkansas (from Alaska) to meet my chair in person and do my final defense. 

I will get to that in the next course, BMAL 890.