#thesis struggles

[garden-secret-ao3writer]

Me: I'm honestly not even stressed about my thesis or university stuff. I’m a mature adult and I realize it’s not worth destroying my nervous system over. [1 new message in the class group chat] Me (halfway to passing out): Lord have mercy.

[nurseturner]

I don't suppose I can dedicate the entire preface of my thesis to Laura Main? Because her pep talk is the only thing that got me through writing the entire thing 😂😂

[resident-of-storybrooke]

Working on my thesis got me like

[digsitediatribe]

AAAAAAAAAAAA

Mkay, I just spent the last three hours scrolling through various vaguely related studies trying to narrow down my topic of choice for my thesis. (Any input on this from my fellow academics who've gone through this torture before would be greatly appreciated T-T.)

Current plan of attack:

Main topic: La Téne culture burials (narrowed down to the county I live in)

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"Great Success" /ref

What am I supposed to make my big statement™? Sure I can compile data and make basic observations but how do I draw a conclusion from that that's worth a damn? I just picked a topic I was interested in that as a bonus seemed greatly underrepresented in my uni,,,

[b99-copaganda-and-legacy-thesis]

Oh yeah recently I sat down to rewatch and research episode 1 some more and Rosa mentions that officers will make arrests at the ends of the shift to get overtime

And that's like. Really hard to substantiate. I can't find a particularly reliable source for it and the claim often gets lumped in with other allegations. Which is how I learned about the NYPD 12 and Edwin Raymond and got halfway into his documentary "Crime + Punishment" (witty but awful naming scheme both because of the book and the british documentary with the same punctuation I kept finding instead) before I realized I was doing a scope creep

I think that's my main problem actually. I want to know all the things about the real life background and show production and social climate and the concept and history of copaganda and all its tropes and then apply that to the show but. Not only is that impossible, it's just not what I set out to do.

For most of my thesis, the show itself is my source. Things that I cannot relate directly to it aren't a priority and probably not relevant in the first place. especially with the deadline coming up in 3 weeks ooooops

Anyway the guy who filmed Eric Garners murder was sent to Rikers (on unrelated charges supposedly) where they poisoned his entire cell block with literal rat poison in meatloaf. (x) I'm telling you this because I have nowhere else to put it.

[b99-copaganda-and-legacy-thesis]

Depression's been hitting HARD lately so instead of writing I spent the last three days watching the second half of My Hero Academia only to find out that the superhero anime does a better job at police reform than Brooklyn 99.

I wish I was joking.

[beauty-is-terrror]

how many reminder e-mails can i sent till my prof is getting annoyed with me?

[silveraura]

Someone needs to make debugging outlawed. Maybe i could do it if it felt like a cool little secret instead of the most boring and frustrating part of programming