MY THESIS IS OFF TO THE PRINTERS
HEY GUYS, I FEEL LIKE WRITING THIS ENTIRE POST IN CAPSLOCKS BUT THAT WOULD BE ANNOYING. So I won't. But imagine a capslock mood.
CUE JAUNTY, UPLIFTING, CELEBRATORY MUSIC.
(I would totally use the serious Civil War man icon that I have for this post, because it's the most historically appropriate, but it doesn't convey the sense of glee I feel at the moment. Imagine me as the man on the right, Jacques Cartier, at least in expression and mood.)
I just got back from Staples (AKA the office supply store) and I came back with three printed copies of the final copy of my thesis: the one I'm going to hand in for my final grade.
It's done. It's sitting in a box downstairs, by the door, so I can bring it to school on Monday when I return a huge stack of books to the library. I had to fiddle with the formatting this morning (you have to expand the left hand margin to one and a half inches instead of just one because they're going to bind them into BOOKS), but after looking over my conclusion one final time, changing two or three words... I declared it completely and absolutely finished.
You can make tiny little nit-picky edits forever, you know? I could probably still be making changes in a month's time, if I wanted, adding in one more source, chasing down one more salient example... but I've made myself stop. It's as good as it's going to get. And it's finished. \o/ \o/ \o/
Here my honour's thesis is, by the numbers...
Title: Too Easily Blamed: American Civil War Surgery and Medical Care in Context
Pagecount (main body): 51
Pagecount with bibliography, title page and table of contents: 59
Number of sections: 12
Wordcount: 14,789
Wordcount (including textboxes and footnotes): 17,789
Character count: 96,768
Character count (with spaces): 114,537 (THINK ABOUT HOW MANY KEYSTROKES THAT IS FOR A SECOND, NOT INCLUDING EDITING)
Number of items on bibliography: 15 primary, 37 secondary, 52 total
Number of footnotes: 215 (many of which cite more than one source)
Number of hours put into this project: COUNTLESS.
CUE JAUNTY, UPLIFTING, CELEBRATORY MUSIC.
(I would totally use the serious Civil War man icon that I have for this post, because it's the most historically appropriate, but it doesn't convey the sense of glee I feel at the moment. Imagine me as the man on the right, Jacques Cartier, at least in expression and mood.)
I just got back from Staples (AKA the office supply store) and I came back with three printed copies of the final copy of my thesis: the one I'm going to hand in for my final grade.
It's done. It's sitting in a box downstairs, by the door, so I can bring it to school on Monday when I return a huge stack of books to the library. I had to fiddle with the formatting this morning (you have to expand the left hand margin to one and a half inches instead of just one because they're going to bind them into BOOKS), but after looking over my conclusion one final time, changing two or three words... I declared it completely and absolutely finished.
You can make tiny little nit-picky edits forever, you know? I could probably still be making changes in a month's time, if I wanted, adding in one more source, chasing down one more salient example... but I've made myself stop. It's as good as it's going to get. And it's finished. \o/ \o/ \o/
Here my honour's thesis is, by the numbers...
Title: Too Easily Blamed: American Civil War Surgery and Medical Care in Context
Pagecount (main body): 51
Pagecount with bibliography, title page and table of contents: 59
Number of sections: 12
Wordcount: 14,789
Wordcount (including textboxes and footnotes): 17,789
Character count: 96,768
Character count (with spaces): 114,537 (THINK ABOUT HOW MANY KEYSTROKES THAT IS FOR A SECOND, NOT INCLUDING EDITING)
Number of items on bibliography: 15 primary, 37 secondary, 52 total
Number of footnotes: 215 (many of which cite more than one source)
Number of hours put into this project: COUNTLESS.