I am ramping up for my final push to complete the final draft of my thesis, to be submitted to my committee for evaluation before my thesis defense after Spring Break. It’s a little terrifying how soon this seems to have arrived: a week from tomorrow I should be 96% finished. And there is so much to […]
A Lull in the Process: In Between Drafts
I have been having a lot of thoughts about my thesis, but have not been writing them down. This is one my my curses, but I think that when I sit back down at my computer with my document, thoughts will come back to be after some prodding. I met with two of my advisers […]
March is made of… MORE THESIS
I finished the first full draft of my thesis! It feels like a huge milestone, with all the content I want to work with written down on paper. It was a fun experience to get into a flow of writing and single-minded focus. It also felt a little endless, as if I could write forever […]
Moving and Shaking: Progress Is Nonlinear
(Thesis draft removed — see here for full first draft) My computer is running slow. I just closed about thirty tabs across both the Chrome windows I have open, a mere 21 remaining open. My desktop is cluttered with map mistakes, PDFs with only numbers as labels, with outdated apps like Microsoft Paint. Whenever my […]
Build On: The Second Stage of Thesis Expansion
This week I expanded my thesis, in progress. I decided to start from the beginning in order to attempt to achieve some sort of balance, but I ran out of time before I got to the end. As a result, this thesis is definitely heavy in the top of the hourglass and very sparse in the […]