New thesis deadline: In a couple of weeks. Well a couple of weeks after the current deadline. So mid-May. Or by the end of May definitely anyway.
Excellent, well I’m glad that’s cleared up. Meanwhile, finally, some feedback. So a major thesis overhaul is now in progress.
There is a meeting next Thursday. Me and my supervisors. After which I will probably know for sure whether they’ll let me hand in my thesis at the deadline at the end of this month, or insist I need to include yet more things (including data which has been promised as arriving soon for well over a year now), and thus need to apply for an extension.
*works madly*
Santa didn’t bring me a finished thesis
Yesterday took me on a 93km bike ride, out to the hippy markets at St Andrews and back. Beautiful warm weather, and a fantastic day to be out riding. Found an alpaca farm, and a goat. And I had two lunches, hoorah.
But now it’s back to work at the laptop. In my spare time, if I’m not on my bike, or doing any of those necessary things like obtaining food, eating food, or cleaning things, then I’m working on my thesis. Type type type… type type. Doesn’t make for many exciting adventures. But once it’s over there will be many adventures. But that is at an as yet undefined time in the future. Maybe December? I can hope.
I haven’t been doing many interesting things recently, as I’ve been working a lot. I have this dream, that one day (hopefully before the end of this year) I will hand in my thesis. And the examiners will hand it back with glowing smiles on their faces, passing it with no more than minor corrections needed. And I shall glide around my graduation ceremony in a flowing robe, and everyone will say to me ‘Congratulations Evilmoose’, and I shall say ‘No, no, it’s Doctor Evilmoose’, and they shall say ‘Of course your graciousness’ (or something like that) and hand me gifts of cookies and exciting wines and cheese, and other such things.
But in the meantime, I have to just hope that my supervisor will arrive back in the country eventually, and might actually look at some of the chapters I’ve handed him to mark over the past two years, and perhaps even sign my ‘Intention to Submit’ form. As I keep working and trying to dig up enough worthwhile results to throw into my thesis to make it thesis-shaped. And procrastinate occasionally… just a bit…
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