My thesis is due in a week!

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freak out!

I have another 30 pages to write, and while a week is plenty of time, I won't have much time for feedback...


AHHH!

foxman - I will not distract you from The Prime Directive: THESIS

For consolation...I previously wrote/finished my master's thesis. I was basically done, and had additonal research too. But, trust me, I know that stress! I am prone to stress-outedness (is that a word?).

I am now furthering my eduation (Chem/Biochem - neuroscience), so I definitely understand! My semester, but not the research, ends next week - sheer panic horror.

But you'll somehow be just fine. Really. Stress becomes amplified, then hysteria sets in, meltdown. Ok, that didn't help.

Here's a funny and true happening to lighten up your moment: Whilst finishing up my thesis for publication, I had every detail down, doing 'final checks,' etc. In chemistry I/we use the word dissociate, as in "The analyte (treatment) readily dissociates (dissolves in) solution...." So, spell-check picked up a minor spelling error of 'dissociate.' I just mindlessly clicked ok - done. OH NO. No one caught my faux pas until thesis was at the printers.....spell check selected 'dissassociate,' which is a psychoanalytical term meaning (in essence), "To lose touch with reality - psychotic break."

MENTAL SCREAM!! ! So, that's how my thesis is printed and published. In actuality, no one, except a select few, actually noticed. Or cared. May this NEVER happen to you.

You'll be ok....slow deep breaths. Do not.....dissassociate.

This reminds me of the time I did my ict project in 32 solid hours of work. Also, why are you reading this? get to work!

Did you start it yet?

Well, she's only got 30 pages left, so she's definitely started.

Anyway, have fun writing.

Hehe. Prime directive. Are you a trekkie?

Only 15 pages left...

Incidentally, anyone here a voltaire expert with whom I might share ideas?

good luck!

it was a mad scramble to finish my masters thesis... and my committee was out of town... that was not fun doin long distance feedback... and to top it off... i was in the midst of a crosscrountry move!

Good luck!

I have three weeks left to finish my thesis and about 5000 words left to write,so I feel your pain.

What's a thesis?

And GOOD LUCK!! :D