Nevermore is no more.
I felt such relief when I didn't have to study anymore. While I haven't thrown all my stuff away yet (as long as I don't know what job I'll be doing, it's wiser that way), I've always kept saying that I'm done for good with that kind of stuff.
*sigh*
I gave Maggie a call today. She had tried to reach me two nights in a row and I was too occupied with watching TV to answer the phone (and rightly so). After lots of congrats for passing my exams and completing my studies, she whined again about how she's not making any progress. I think we've last met in July or August. Oh wait, might have been May instead. Anyway. She had wanted to come up with a topic for her thesis in order to apply for the exam period in mid-October. Alas, she still has no clue what to do in her thesis.
And I'm the one to help her out.
Need I repeat myself that I haven't had a f*cking clue what to do in mine until a month and a half before I applied? Or that I hadn't done anything yet by the time that I indeed applied? How am I the one to help somebody find a good topic when I hardly found one for myself?
The ideal outcome would be that she quickly finds something manageable and then simply gets started on that topic. Trouble is, she's always so insecure. She has an idea, then doesn't take the next step to pursue it. She's always worried, and I think she hasn't gotten the point yet: the impact of all this exam period is not all that big, we're not expected to be geniuses who reinvent the wheel! Really, a thesis means NOTHING. The other exams mean NOTHING. The sole reason for their existence is to somehow prove that you get the bigger picture and that you're capable of working scientifically. Just pick SOMETHING, then follow it through. Think it through. Document it accordingly. That's it.
So, I promised her to give her ideas some thought and we'll meet on Monday. I can already see this meeting being a failure because she'll be too obsessed cooking for me and asking about my experience and all. :0P
*sigh*
I gave Maggie a call today. She had tried to reach me two nights in a row and I was too occupied with watching TV to answer the phone (and rightly so). After lots of congrats for passing my exams and completing my studies, she whined again about how she's not making any progress. I think we've last met in July or August. Oh wait, might have been May instead. Anyway. She had wanted to come up with a topic for her thesis in order to apply for the exam period in mid-October. Alas, she still has no clue what to do in her thesis.
And I'm the one to help her out.
Need I repeat myself that I haven't had a f*cking clue what to do in mine until a month and a half before I applied? Or that I hadn't done anything yet by the time that I indeed applied? How am I the one to help somebody find a good topic when I hardly found one for myself?
The ideal outcome would be that she quickly finds something manageable and then simply gets started on that topic. Trouble is, she's always so insecure. She has an idea, then doesn't take the next step to pursue it. She's always worried, and I think she hasn't gotten the point yet: the impact of all this exam period is not all that big, we're not expected to be geniuses who reinvent the wheel! Really, a thesis means NOTHING. The other exams mean NOTHING. The sole reason for their existence is to somehow prove that you get the bigger picture and that you're capable of working scientifically. Just pick SOMETHING, then follow it through. Think it through. Document it accordingly. That's it.
So, I promised her to give her ideas some thought and we'll meet on Monday. I can already see this meeting being a failure because she'll be too obsessed cooking for me and asking about my experience and all. :0P