A PhD candidate credits Dr. Tippins' 7-day accelerator program and community workshops with getting them ready for their dissertation defense. The accelerator helped with quick onboarding, templates for structuring the defense, and chapters 4 and 5 guidance. They went from final writing stages to feeling confident.
I think I saw your accelerator, so I went on and got that. I said, okay, let me do the accelerator piece of it just to get that 7-day one. And I already signed up, like you said, for the free community, which was great because everybody's on the same page, everybody's trying to get to that next stage. And so the encouragement piece of it, but you also had different talks. I would hop on when I could to the different talks. And so I was kind of like in between the part where I was about to defend and I told Dr. Tippins, I'm like, I'm kind of already at the end, but I need some help with the defense part. Get me prepared for that. So of course you had the template for how to prepare for your defense and stuff. So I looked through that. And then, of course, you had speakers talking about your Chapter 5 and Chapter 4. So I was kind of over in that piece of it. And so I would get on for that, for how to approach your defense, how to approach the Chapter 5 and 4. So I was in that stage. So having speakers in your workshops, those were helpful when y'all did those different talks and stuff. So I would hop on and listen to that. It was encouraging, much needed.
