Right after your PhD defense, fix the small things your committee asked for immediately. Don't wait for recordings or let the details slip away. Get it done now so you can actually move on.
Let's talk about what to do now that you've defended your dissertation. First, congratulations! You've made it through. You've done it. You've climbed through the exhaustion. You've handled all the comments. You're here. You're done. You have finished. You're a doctor now, or at least an almost doctor depending on your institution. So what do I do now that I've finished? It's not uncommon for at the final defense your committee to still have some things they would like changed. Minor changes typically. Maybe add in a reference or tie into a different reference. So you've got to go back and make those corrections, and I would suggest you make them rather quickly because it can get old, meaning you can forget what somebody said or what they meant when they said, well, tie this in, but tie it in where? Sometimes there are recordings of these, but it might take several weeks to get access to a recording. Well, do you want to just sit around waiting for several weeks, or do you want to get done?
