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Researching my Master's thesis has been a bitch. Though I've tried to do my share of work and start making some serious tangible progress, I once again seem to be in a rut. I talked to my advisor a couple of days ago and he suggested ideas that could go somewhere, so I guess I'm more hopeful now than I was before the talk. I've begun to wonder if I will ever finish, but in reality there is nothing that would lead me to believe I won't, unless I decided to quit. And if there is one thing that I know for sure in my life right now is that I cannot, under any circumstance, no matter how hard it gets, no matter how much blood is shed (that was the dramatic note, hehe), quit my research and not finish my thesis. It's simply a matter of finishing what I start, something I've struggled with my whole life, and something I must make sure I do this time, for my sanity's sake.
There are a number of reasons why researching my thesis has been difficult for me. Probably the biggest of them all is that I graduated in Electrical Engineering, not Computer Science, and that I've always preferred the more practical aspect of computers (programming and such), and have never been that inclined to mathematical theory. As a result, I have not really taken the time to learn the mathematics involved in CS. I've tried a couple of times in the past, but I wasn't very successful. I sometimes think I'm just too impatient to give theory the time it needs to sink in, I want to move on to the next page, the next chapter, the next topic too fast. I trust my ability to learn more than I should at times, and as a result, I don't give myself enough time to really learn, I only scratch the surface. Those are issues that I will have to deal with in some way or another.
I wish I could write more about this, but I don't really have the time right now. Maybe I will continue later.
There are a number of reasons why researching my thesis has been difficult for me. Probably the biggest of them all is that I graduated in Electrical Engineering, not Computer Science, and that I've always preferred the more practical aspect of computers (programming and such), and have never been that inclined to mathematical theory. As a result, I have not really taken the time to learn the mathematics involved in CS. I've tried a couple of times in the past, but I wasn't very successful. I sometimes think I'm just too impatient to give theory the time it needs to sink in, I want to move on to the next page, the next chapter, the next topic too fast. I trust my ability to learn more than I should at times, and as a result, I don't give myself enough time to really learn, I only scratch the surface. Those are issues that I will have to deal with in some way or another.
I wish I could write more about this, but I don't really have the time right now. Maybe I will continue later.