Congrats on the essay! :-) The real trick now is to take Farscape outside, somewhere quiet and warm where you can just enjoy the pretty . . .
I'm a product of the American system. I wrote an undergraduate thesis, which I could turn into a master's thesis, but definitely not a PhD dissertation.
Unfortunately it wasn't quite warm enough to do inactive things outside, and I was too tired to be active, so indoor Farscape-watching it was. This weekend it's supposed to get up to 20 degrees, though!!!! (that's like 70 F!!!) Deck reading, here I come! (and it's interesting to me how I can assimilate things like temperature in Celcius, but still stumble on other usage quirks)
I think the American usage of these words makes by far the least sense (compared to Canadians calling everything "thesis" and Brits calling everything "dissertation")--but it's what I'm used to, so yeah.
One of my best friends is Canadian (from Toronto, actually), and I now have a quirk of immediately translating all Farenheit temperatures to Celcius when we talk. That and I spent the summer in France during the heat wave in 2003 and, well, you learn really fast that 40 is just damn hot, and it makes the conversation much easier. Go figure.
I switch from Farenheit mode to Celcius mode depending on which country I'm in: in Canada, I automatically do temperatures in Celcius, and in the States I automatically do Farenheit. The actual translation is an afterthought that I only do when talking to someone who possibly doesn't translate one way or the other. But if I'm talking to my parents, I'll say "it's 10 here--that's like 50" and then I'll turn around immediately after that conversation and say to my roommate "I'm so jealous; it's 70 at home--that's like 20." Because in my brain, temperature comes in Farenheit there and in Celcius here.
Yeah, we call thesis 'dissertation' and like Kate says, there's one for each level - BA, MA and then PhD. The one I'm currently yelling about on my LJ is my BSc so 'thesis' in your eyes as it definitely ain't hundreds of pages.
Nice - I'm liking you 2 birds, 1 stone technique too. Very nifty.
Heh - I had the same thing yesterday. Dissertation [sorry, thesis] handed in -- oh er, what'll I do now?? Went to the beach in the end, which was sunny but not quite warm enough to be truly delicious. Yey spring!
Calling them all the same thing--whether it's "thesis" like the Canadians do or "dissertation" like y'all do--really is the most logical. But logical or not, the American usage is still the one I've most ingrained, so... ;)
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I'm a product of the American system. I wrote an undergraduate thesis, which I could turn into a master's thesis, but definitely not a PhD dissertation.
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I think the American usage of these words makes by far the least sense (compared to Canadians calling everything "thesis" and Brits calling everything "dissertation")--but it's what I'm used to, so yeah.
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More importantly: YAY WARM!
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Nice - I'm liking you 2 birds, 1 stone technique too. Very nifty.
Heh - I had the same thing yesterday. Dissertation [sorry, thesis] handed in -- oh er, what'll I do now?? Went to the beach in the end, which was sunny but not quite warm enough to be truly delicious. Yey spring!
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Now the trick is for my brain to get the message that it's back to work today. ;)
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