#thesis problems

[samsboobs]

When you’re reading fan fiction to escape from your responsibilities and it attacks you like this:

[bookwyrmbran]

Long shot, but... I just finished writing a long-ass paper on how American Heathenry and Evangelicalism talk about and around trans people, and while I am confident in my ability to discuss white American Evangelicalism and trans shit, I am a Very New Heathen, and would really love second or third looks at this to make sure I’m not horribly misrepresenting heathenry or leaving something really obvious out. If anyone is bored and/or feels like eyeballing an ~80 page monstrosity, please hit me up! It doesn’t go to publication until the end of September, so I’ve got some time to make edits.

[phdinhangeul]

Update!

So yesterday I had 본심/본심사, which could be though of as thesis defence without any defending actually happening. You pretty much just sit there and listen which parts you have to correct and so on. Of course I was nervous and afraid I’ll be completely destoryed by the professors.

But they complimented my thesis. They were actually ok with it. Which completely caught me off guard. What the fudge, was what I thought, but what came out was a very confused and shy 감사합니다. Of course they pointed out all the things I have to correct. And to be honest, I think they’re pretty reasonable requests. And the criticism they made was constructive.

Today I got their signs and stamps of approval for me to go on and submit my thesis once it’s corrected.

I am so happy~

I’m not that happy that in 2 days I have to correct this bad boy. Ah well, as long as I graduate

[magicademical]

Question for Phd-ers:

How do you write when you don’t know what to write?

[umeed-e-sehr]

Wordsing is never as hard as when you have to write up the introduction to a paper and think of clever ways to say things. If only someone would pay me by the word, then at least I would have some motivation to write.

[asteroidflaneur]

So this is how it feels to be rejected without an explanation

Our block just received spreadsheets with our names and either "okay," "clarify the issue," "limit the scope," "check for duplication," "see Prof. X," or "change topic."

I got "change topic" and I don't even know what's wrong. 😭

I didn’t even feel this bad when my boyfriend and I broke up. And now I wonder if my proposal was too ambitious.

Now I’m eating a tub of barbecue-flavored fries even if it’s bad for me. I’m also considering sending my thesis outline to Emmanuel Macron and requesting that he vouch for it.

(Okay, I’ll die of extra-ness.)

[lizziethereader]

my thesis is 52 words too long and I have no idea what to delete. great. I hope your night is going better!

[bookwyrmbran]

ahahahahahahaha I have to defend by September 13th and the first draft is NOT DONE and now I am typing one-handed and may have nerve damage to the other wrist and tomorrow I see the doc and get x-rays and meet with my thesis chair who is probably going to want Moar References because no one fucking does academic comparative work with heathenry OR religious work wrt transfolks that isn’t entirely christian-centric

and somehow by Saturday I am also supposed to have finished character gen and backstory for my first ever campaign with an experienced group of mostly strangers

and the parents’re being jackasses

and the gods are being loUD AND CONFUSING and obnoxiously demanding

and I do not have the time for this