One night when my roommates and I were all sitting around after dinner, someone posed the question of what we each planned to do upon finishing our thesis. Now that’s a difficult question to answer as there are any number of celebratory acts from which one can choose. After thinking for a long time, I [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Longhorn Steakhouse
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2009 | Comments Off
Embracing Short Term Too Early
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2009 | Comments Off
So my roommates and I made a mistake. A big one. And we’re paying for it. The mistake? Embracing short term prematurely. A few of us finished our theses a bit early and we decided to “take a break.” This “break” manifested itself in staying up chatting until 3 in the morning, sleeping in, cooking [...]
Post Thesis Depression
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2009 | Comments Off
I have often witnessed the linkage of the metaphor of a baby to the thesis writing process. It’s your baby, you nurture it and love it and want it out of your life at emotional times and then you have to let it go and send it out into the world (or into your adviser’s [...]
The End of the Semester
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2009 | Comments Off
Each academic semester at Bates has its tell tale signs that the end is near. Whether it’s absent friends or that the study carole on the third floor of the library that you’ve occupied since the beginning of the semester is (gasp) taken by someone else (So frustrating, especially for people like me who get [...]
Mount David Summit
Posted in Bates Opportunities, Random Thoughts, tagged 2009, 28 Days Later, Bates College, Dr. Pepper, Mount David Summit, Women and Gender Studies on April 9, 2009 | Comments Off
This past Friday was the annual Mount David Summit, an afternoon of poster presentations, panel discussions and performances/ film screenings as well as a chance to view photos from Barlow study-abroad grant winners. It is a campus-wide celebration of student’s academic achievement and it’s a really fascinating time for one to learn what one’s fellow [...]
Finishing the Rough Draft
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Bates College, dating violence, Rhianna and Chris Brown, thesis, work on April 7, 2009 | Comments Off
So I just finished the rough draft of my thesis after two weeks of literal slaving away. I ate, slept and dreamt thesis and I worked continuously on it, I mean continuously, from class to the computer to a meeting to the computer and so on. I was going to sleep around 3 am [...]
