The Short Version: I wrote two theses. The Long Version: Since I have been delinquent in writing weekly posts for the last three weeks, I have decided to write a long post of my process. PART I: ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES The last post I wrote was about a lull in the process of writing my ENVS […]
Before The BIG One
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 My desktop is cluttered with map mistakes, PDFs with only numbers as labels, with outdated apps like Microsoft Paint.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 […]