I couldn't figure out what the hold-up was with ProQuest in publishing the Open Access version of my Masters Thesis. I'd received the hardbound copy (and a paperback which I'd ordered for dad) and yet the online version still wasn't up at their Open Access site. So I e-mailed them the other day and got a response back saying it takes 10-12 weeks ( Read more... )

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As I just tweeted, like planet Earth, my thesis IS DEFENDED ( Read more... )

Happy First Day of Spring! May your daylight equal your night time today ( Read more... )

I have just e-mailed my Thesis draft to my adviser. Here's hoping I did what I was supposed to do! I actually feel pretty good about the paper (except for the conclusion paragraph - I suck at those). Hope my prof agrees wit me (and more than just on the sucking conclusion).

Time to back it all up!

The Thesis is WRITTEN!

Still need to finish editing, but I'm pretty sure it's written in its entirety (with maybe a sentence or two in the conclusion if I think it needs 'em).

Tomorrow, I finish editing and then I turn the sucker in!

WHEW!

I imagine that our superintendent really didn't want to have to call off school today. We need to get out the first week of May so that they can tear our old building down to make the parking lot for the new one. Making up calamity days will not help this. Still, student safety is his first concern, so he makes the decisions with that at the ( Read more... )

Although I met my first deadline for my self-imposed schedule on my Thesis writing (well, missed it by 1 day - that's good for me!), I've been behind ever since. For some reason, I thought I'd actually get a lot of work done over the holidays. Ha ( Read more... )

Phew! I finished my final essay for History and Philosophy of Science and turned it in. elsaf was nice enough to proof it (in its nearly-done state) and gave me many useful suggestions & corrections. Thanks again, hon ( Read more... )

I intend to come up for air next Wednesday. But for now, thanks to procrastination and my weird problem with closure (in that I avoid it), I've got two final papers to write and turn in (one due Tomorrow, the other next Tuesday) and then I'm done with my last proper semester. Everything after this is just thesis ( Read more... )