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tassie_gal in academics_anon

Blergh...

Mar 20, 2011 19:45

post submission PhD. Thought I was successfully recovering and doing the OMG ITS UNDER EXAMINATION denial thing quite happily while working dead end job that requires little brain skill but lots of grunt. Until Friday. Get message on phone from supervisor, apparently one of the examiners wants a word count. Ok, fine - I do it. Now I am doing ( Read more... )

group hug

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the_reda March 20 2011, 09:02:10 UTC

This. I'd suggest a beer/shot for every 1k :)

varanus March 20 2011, 10:34:19 UTC

Every 1K? Lightweight.

Every page at minimum.

tassie_gal March 20 2011, 11:01:39 UTC

Icon love! Can I gank?

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kitzen_kat March 20 2011, 09:39:17 UTC

Count the words, then go for a drink.

tassie_gal March 20 2011, 11:03:26 UTC

Above advice is essentially waht I did. Except I dont drink so it bake a muffin for ever 1k. Turns out beomouth aint so beomouthic. 44K without refs, 53K with. I think its probably a disciple thing...I'm inter disciplinary between med and social sciences....suspect I have confuzzled examiners!

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Re: it's national write my goddamn thesis month, every month, til it's done! tassie_gal March 20 2011, 11:38:53 UTC

Yeah well less said about supervisors and the univeristy the better (have not had the BEST experience)

Re: it's national write my goddamn thesis month, every month, til it's done! lostreality March 20 2011, 13:11:52 UTC

wouldn't 50k fall out to around 150 pages? That is fairly typical for a quantitative methods dissertation in my field (sociology). Our Master's theses had to be a 'publishable paper' so no more than 40 pages, since journals won't publish papers longer than that.

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emperor March 20 2011, 13:13:00 UTC

You should be worried that your examiner is unable to count.

tassie_gal March 20 2011, 13:30:44 UTC

LOL! Thats very true actually!

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tassie_gal March 20 2011, 14:08:16 UTC

Mind if I add you?

lostreality March 20 2011, 13:14:17 UTC

if your chair is worth her/his salt, he/she would not have let you submit your dissertation if it was not ready to be defended. Not necessarily going to stop you from worrying about it though. I suggest doing things to distract yourself, like go out with friends, go see a movie, etc.

tassie_gal March 20 2011, 13:30:08 UTC

Ah see therin lies a problem. Australian system, no thesis committee per se. There are other things, but username coupled with those things would make me very identifiable.

lostreality March 20 2011, 13:36:43 UTC

but you have a supervisor right? Someone who read drafts of your dissertation before you submitted the final draft?

tassie_gal March 20 2011, 13:48:48 UTC

Err yeah, sorta. Set of very bizarre and odd circumstances which I wont go into here for fear of people working out who I am, has made the last couple of years interesting.