sorry, more about the essay
Hah! I finished a first draft at 7:45 this morning, after working on it fairly fruitlessly until 9:30, feeling miserable but not admitting it for an hour, and then physically removing myself from my essay until one in the morning, when I threw up from stress + postnasal drip. Then I felt better, dozed until 1:30, and started working on my essay again. In the course of 6 hours I assembled about 8 or 9 more double-spaced pages and got pretty much all of the necessary content in the way I wanted it. I cobbled together a conclusion from conclusion-y thoughts I'd had when more coherent, and just sort of left it at that, since I knew a real conclusion would have to wait until I'd had some time to think about the essay as a whole and met with Mr. Verdi about the draft.
I met with him at 11 am, and he told me that I needed to write an intro and conclusion and then rewrite transition bits to emphasize the path between those two points (my essay is teleological in so many ways >_<) as well as do stylistic edits: removing the 'you's, fixing spelling and grammar, formatting citations, making the equations clearer and prettier, and adding images where necessary. I'm also thinking about the cover page- I think my title's going to be 'What's the Matter? (How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Bohm)' and I'm torn between trying to find or create a catrabbit, or just using a wordle of my essay to imitate a cathode-ray beam.
Hopefully I'll be done by a reasonable time in the evening on Friday, so that I can have someone besides Mr. Verdi read over it. We're going to meet on Saturday morning, bright and early, so hopefully everything'll be good and I can get it printed and bound at the print shop rather than having to pay for it at Kinko's.
I came up with a real conclusion this evening and I'm really excited about it- it ties everything together and makes so much sense! It's a huge flowchart, and I think I'll put it in as such, and then explicate it and its implications in a page or two at the end.
I think I've got a lot of work ahead of me tomorrow re: content edits. Mr. Verdi didn't seem bothered by it, but I felt like the end especially was really choppy and there wasn't enough analysis of some of the equations, or justification of their inclusion in the paper. And now that I know for sure that I'm going to use Bohm and Leibniz in my conclusion, I have to set that up a little more in the body. That's just the first things that come to mind; I know there will be others. And style edits always take way longer than I think they should; luckily, Barbara lent me her citation manual and I can use publisher to make images (with words in, if I need to!)
Ah, it's 2 am and I've finally wound down enough to go to sleep. I've been telling everyone who would listen about my projected conclusion because I was so thrilled to see it all come together, but now the approximately five hours of non-consecutive sleep I got are demanding friends.
I met with him at 11 am, and he told me that I needed to write an intro and conclusion and then rewrite transition bits to emphasize the path between those two points (my essay is teleological in so many ways >_<) as well as do stylistic edits: removing the 'you's, fixing spelling and grammar, formatting citations, making the equations clearer and prettier, and adding images where necessary. I'm also thinking about the cover page- I think my title's going to be 'What's the Matter? (How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Bohm)' and I'm torn between trying to find or create a catrabbit, or just using a wordle of my essay to imitate a cathode-ray beam.
Hopefully I'll be done by a reasonable time in the evening on Friday, so that I can have someone besides Mr. Verdi read over it. We're going to meet on Saturday morning, bright and early, so hopefully everything'll be good and I can get it printed and bound at the print shop rather than having to pay for it at Kinko's.
I came up with a real conclusion this evening and I'm really excited about it- it ties everything together and makes so much sense! It's a huge flowchart, and I think I'll put it in as such, and then explicate it and its implications in a page or two at the end.
I think I've got a lot of work ahead of me tomorrow re: content edits. Mr. Verdi didn't seem bothered by it, but I felt like the end especially was really choppy and there wasn't enough analysis of some of the equations, or justification of their inclusion in the paper. And now that I know for sure that I'm going to use Bohm and Leibniz in my conclusion, I have to set that up a little more in the body. That's just the first things that come to mind; I know there will be others. And style edits always take way longer than I think they should; luckily, Barbara lent me her citation manual and I can use publisher to make images (with words in, if I need to!)
Ah, it's 2 am and I've finally wound down enough to go to sleep. I've been telling everyone who would listen about my projected conclusion because I was so thrilled to see it all come together, but now the approximately five hours of non-consecutive sleep I got are demanding friends.