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[SleepyWitch]

my thesis is growing like a giant mutant mushroom with ten heads... !!!
I've already got 62 pages. we are supposed to write between 60-80 pages and I've got 1 1/2 more weeks to go. at the moment, I don't know how to fit it all inside 80 pages I'll have to be careful not to write too much. at first I didn't know what to write at all!
well, half of what I wrote this weekend is bull**** and maybe I'll scrap it.

[Virgil]

my thesis is growing like a giant mutant mushroom with ten heads... !!!
I've already got 62 pages. we are supposed to write between 60-80 pages and I've got 1 1/2 more weeks to go. at the moment, I don't know how to fit it all inside 80 pages I'll have to be careful not to write too much. at first I didn't know what to write at all!
well, half of what I wrote this weekend is bull**** and maybe I'll scrap it.

Don't you have an outline Sleepy? You should have this roughly mapped out. Sometimes a section does grow on you if you under estimated it, but this sounds like you're letting the paper get out of control.

[SleepyWitch]

Don't you have an outline Sleepy? You should have this roughly mapped out. Sometimes a section does grow on you if you under estimated it, but this sounds like you're letting the paper get out of control.

yes, I do have an outline. there's too more points I want to mention briefly, but I'll discuss only a handful of examples for each and keep it brief. then I need to add some more stuff to my "Theoretical Implications" and stick an Introduction to the thing I think we can write more than 80 pages, but I'd prefer it not to be more than 90

[Petrarch's Love]

Glad it's shaping up, Sleepy. I know exactly what you mean about getting to that point in a project when things just take off and you can hardly find the room to say all the things that need saying. I always write over the set limits too. That's a good place to be, though, provided you're overwriting with substance and not just fluff, and it sounds like you're caught up with something substantial. It's much easier to edit and streamline too much material than to find yourself with too little material. Good luck with the finishing up.

[SleepyWitch]

Glad it's shaping up, Sleepy. I know exactly what you mean about getting to that point in a project when things just take off and you can hardly find the room to say all the things that need saying. I always write over the set limits too. That's a good place to be, though, provided you're overwriting with substance and not just fluff, and it sounds like you're caught up with something substantial. It's much easier to edit and streamline too much material than to find yourself with too little material. Good luck with the finishing up.

thanks Petrarch
the thing is, my topic touches on an area in which there have been lots of new developments lately (not in the English language itself, I mean, but in the way it is studied and described). so there isn't much literature to go by... i mean there is, but it's mostly "seminal" work, where the authors set an agenda and tell you what should be done or that a new theory is needed. but they don't tell you what that theory is.... even the prof said he can't think of any books that specifically address the questions raised by my topic (not by me but the topic itself) and I should just piece it together from different general sources...... aaaaaaaaaaaargh, I'm writing without a safety net

[Shea]

That sounds like a very interesting paper Sleepy! I love reading things about the study of the English Language. I took a history of the English language course in college, and though it was tough, it was definitely one of the more interesting classes! Good luck with your thesis!

[SleepyWitch]

That sounds like a very interesting paper Sleepy! I love reading things about the study of the English Language. I took a history of the English language course in college, and though it was tough, it was definitely one of the more interesting classes! Good luck with your thesis!

thanks, Shea. well, mine is not about historical linguistics hehe, it's very technical and complicated

[Sweets America]

my thesis is growing like a giant mutant mushroom with ten heads... !!!
I've already got 62 pages. we are supposed to write between 60-80 pages and I've got 1 1/2 more weeks to go. at the moment, I don't know how to fit it all inside 80 pages I'll have to be careful not to write too much. at first I didn't know what to write at all!
well, half of what I wrote this weekend is bull**** and maybe I'll scrap it.

Ah, the same thing happened to me while I was writing my 'thesis' when I was doing my first year Master's degree when I was still studying clinical psychology! I had to write something like 40 pages but I wrote more in the end. Actually I wrote with a certain space between the lines and the teacher wanted a larger space, which meant that I had written more than I should have.

[kiz_paws]

Your paper sounds cool and shaping up to your satisfaction, good stuff, Sleepy!

And Sweets, I didn't realize that you studied clinical psychology -- very cool.

[Sweets America]

And Sweets, I didn't realize that you studied clinical psychology -- very cool.

Yes I did, but I realized that I could not enclose myself into their theories and interpret patients' bahaviors and what they said in accordance to those theories. I felt uneasy about that. Plus I really didn't have good experiences with psychologists as a patient myself.

[Taliesin]

Yay, last exam yesterday. Should get a C, or, perhaps, if I'm lucky, a B.
Quite atough subject, actually, and actually some answers make me feel a bit embarassed - hmm, I don't know, what should go in that blank, I don't have a clue, but hey, this equation was in the same paragraph, so I'll answer this one. Yes. Perhaps I'll get a point for this.

D'oh!
Well, I think I got most of the things right and I have never totally grasped electromagnetism, especially magnetism.

Anyhow, the next semester is starting in February 11th so I'll have quite a bit free time until.
Yay! Plus, I think I should get a small scholarship since, at least my brother claims so, the general results in the mathematics-informatics faculty are so low that I should fit into the top 15% with my results.


Actually I did this post to see what my signature is like since I have completely forgotten what's in there.

EDIT: Hey, I don't have one! So that's why I had forgotten about it.

[SleepyWitch]

Well, I think I got most of the things right and I have never totally grasped electromagnetism, especially magnetism.

is this the one where the teacher holds up his thumb, index finger and middle finger as if he had cramps or was about to do cruel things to 3 cats at once?

[Taliesin]

Well, yes, that one too.

But there are other things too, for example, I could never remember those things you measure with teslas and webers. Don't even know how they are in English.

[kiz_paws]

Yes I did, but I realized that I could not enclose myself into their theories and interpret patients' bahaviors and what they said in accordance to those theories. I felt uneasy about that. Plus I really didn't have good experiences with psychologists as a patient myself.

Makes sense to moi!

Cool, Taliesin, about the exam -- but question -- what ever happened to your posts being written in the plural format (We as opposed to I)? .... I used to think that was very cute.

[SleepyWitch]

Makes sense to moi!

Cool, Taliesin, about the exam -- but question -- what ever happened to your posts being written in the plural format (We as opposed to I)? .... I used to think that was very cute.

yes, I've been wondering about that too. but last time I asked Tal about it, he didn't reply could he be trying to sneak his way out of the whole 'we' thing?