Comments | commodore_zeke: I don't say "squee". Ever. But if I did...

commodore_zeke

I don't say "squee". Ever. But if I did...

Dec 16, 2007 15:42

I've had a hell of a time in this last month of my Master's program. Not only did I find out I'd been taking the whole thing far less seriously than I should have (and thinking I could just waltz into a PhD that way), I've been getting more and more upset about the quality of my work. I've procrastinated and coasted and taken my supervisor for ( Read more... )

math, uw

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mudshark58 December 16 2007, 21:46:56 UTC

Oh, go ahead: say "Squee!"

I won't tell.

nahtmmm December 17 2007, 17:25:32 UTC

Woohoo!

jadethe2nd December 17 2007, 19:24:41 UTC

Awesome! And happy birthday :)

mudshark58 December 17 2007, 21:02:24 UTC

Yeah - that, too.

anonymous December 25 2007, 03:37:31 UTC

The point where the trainwreck you've made of your grad school career gets turned around and you can see a faint glimmer of hope that you're going to finish after all is one of the greatest moments of your life.

I speak from experience.

It didn't seem like it at the time, but looking back I think the day I finally got consistent results out of my experiments was a far more momentous occasion than my thesis defense.

Hang in there. If your prof thinks your thesis is good, passing the defense should be a foregone conclusion.

~Sa'ar, M.Sc.