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foxman
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 Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 2:56 pm Post subject: My thesis is due in a week! |
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freak out!
I have another 30 pages to write, and while a week is plenty of time, I won't have much time for feedback...
AHHH!
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LabPet
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foxman - I will not distract you from The Prime Directive: THESIS
For consolation...I previously wrote/finished my master's thesis. I was basically done, and had additonal research too. But, trust me, I know that stress! I am prone to stress-outedness (is that a word?).
I am now furthering my eduation (Chem/Biochem - neuroscience), so I definitely understand! My semester, but not the research, ends next week - sheer panic horror.
But you'll somehow be just fine. Really. Stress becomes amplified, then hysteria sets in, meltdown. Ok, that didn't help.
Here's a funny and true happening to lighten up your moment: Whilst finishing up my thesis for publication, I had every detail down, doing 'final checks,' etc. In chemistry I/we use the word dissociate, as in "The analyte (treatment) readily dissociates (dissolves in) solution...." So, spell-check picked up a minor spelling error of 'dissociate.' I just mindlessly clicked ok - done. OH NO. No one caught my faux pas until thesis was at the printers.....spell check selected 'dissassociate,' which is a psychoanalytical term meaning (in essence), "To lose touch with reality - psychotic break."
MENTAL SCREAM!!! So, that's how my thesis is printed and published. In actuality, no one, except a select few, actually noticed. Or cared. May this NEVER happen to you.
You'll be ok....slow deep breaths. Do not.....dissassociate. 
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bheid
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:36 am Post subject: |
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This reminds me of the time I did my ict project in 32 solid hours of work. Also, why are you reading this? get to work!
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sim
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:37 am Post subject: |
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Thomas1138
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Well, she's only got 30 pages left, so she's definitely started.
Anyway, have fun writing. |
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foxman
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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| LabPet wrote: | foxman - I will not distract you from The Prime Directive: THESIS
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Hehe. Prime directive. Are you a trekkie?
Only 15 pages left...
Incidentally, anyone here a voltaire expert with whom I might share ideas?
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Sedaka
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:04 am Post subject: |
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good luck!
it was a mad scramble to finish my masters thesis... and my committee was out of town... that was not fun doin long distance feedback... and to top it off... i was in the midst of a crosscrountry move!
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Anna4077
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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Good luck!
I have three weeks left to finish my thesis and about 5000 words left to write,so I feel your pain. |
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Legato
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 2:25 am Post subject: |
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What's a thesis?
And GOOD LUCK!!
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