You’ve submitted, now it’s wait time your work is a portrayal of your understanding.
There is, rightly, a lot of emphasis on getting WORK written and submitted. That end-SUBMSSION writing can be tough and it’s important that people do get as much help as they want and need to complete.
There’s not enough said about the waiting that happens after you’ve handed in. Anticipating the viva to come. Not knowing what you’re going to be asked. Looking back over the text and seeing all the little typos. Identifying places where you could have said something else, something different, possibly something better. Worrying about whether its going to be minor or major corrections. Hoping, against the odds, it’s going to be no corrections at all. Waiting.
We live across mood-worlds. We live through a plethora of feelings. Some moods and feelings are dramatic and intense; their presence is emphatic, insistent. Other feelings are relatively inconspicuous because they occur too often to be noticeable, or because they saturate a particular situation. Some are just a low hum. We don’t notice the mood of the place where we work until it is somehow ‘off ’. But the day- to- day mood of our workplace isn’t the absence of mood. We know this because it is significantly different from the atmosphere in our homes, even though we might not notice that mood either. All of the feelings we experience are relational, and to a greater or lesser extent those relations are deeply entwined with the social worlds that we inhabit.