Can I Run In Front of a Bus Now?

My Thesis Timeline:
March 5th- turn in Thesis draft to committee members for revisions

March 8-12 spring break

March 16th- Get revisions back from Thesis Advisor

March 18th- receive revisions back from committee member 1

March 19th-Begin revisions

April  5th- Final Thesis due into department

April 12th- Defend Thesis

April 16th- Last day to turn in approved thesis to the Graduate school to graduate in May


I'm pretty over well organized. I put myself on a schedule and i stick to the deadlines, otherwise i would never get anything done. So its really hard when all my best laid plan go afoul. This morning (April 2nd) the last member of my committee finally emailed me back with revisions. Now he has had my thesis for 4 weeks, and 3 days before i am due to turn in my thesis i get his revisions. And his revisions are the most labor intensive because he wants me to expand my secondary sources, which means i have to go pull about 15 books out of the library and managed to get them incorporated into my thesis by Monday, when its due to the department.


See my department has this requirement that your thesis sit in the department for a week before you can defend it, because our defenses are open to the whole department. And my thesis has to be approved, defended and revised by April 16th for me to turn it into the graduate school.

It would take a normal person 2 weeks to do what my committee member is asking me to do in 3 days. In fairness to him, He didn't know the thesis had to be due by April 5th, so it's not entirely his fault. But he sat on my thesis for 4 weeks, which is entirely too long, considering my advisor and other member got it back to me in half that time. Plus the library is closed till tomorrow. FML