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That’s how many references I have in my lit review chapter. I’m tempted to throw in 5 gratuitous references, just to make it a nice round 200. What do you think? Should I? So far, my chapter two has 69 references (tee hee! 69), chapter three has 61, and chapter four has 20 (there is […]
Would you believe that UBC actually has these clocks up in the administrative building? To give you the backstory, last year UBC completed a hostile takeover of the Okanagan University College (or, as I’ve heard people from OUC call it “the occupation”)… one day, out of the blue, UBC & the BC government announced that […]
So, as I wait for my supervisor to read through my latest draft, I’m putting together the little odds & ends that need to go into the thesis, one of which is the acknowledgements section. You know, the part where you thank everyone you’ve ever met and suck up to your committee in the hopes […]
Well, it’s done! It’s the last day of 2005 and I’ve just sent off my lit review chapter to my supervisor. Keep your fingers crossed for me that she likes it! She now has all of the chapters and I’m really hoping that she’s going to be OK with them. I just really, really, really […]
Well, I didn’t think it was possible, but I’ve actually managed to slash my mammoth 64-page literature review down to a svelte 38 pages! It took a complete reimagining of my section on fetal bone development (it was so lovely and detailed before, but my supervisor convinced me that no matter how much I liked […]
Here are two presents I received for Christmas that are somewhat thesis related: My sister sent me this cool travel mug with a caffeine molecule on it. As we all know, caffeine fuels all great writing. Isn’t this little rat cute? His name is Sam… which is short for “sample”. As in “today we are […]
THE EFFECTS OF WISHING HAPPY HOLIDAYS VIA INTERNET WEBLOGGING by BETH B.Sc. (Hons.), Christmas University, 1999M.Sc., University of New Year’s, 2000 A HOLIDAY WISH SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF THESIS BLOG WRITING in THE FACULTY OF THESIS WRITING IS HELL THE UNIVERSITY OF BLOGGER December 2005 © Thesis Writing […]
I’m sick of the waiting game. Let’s play Hungry, Hungry Hippos! (10 points to the first person who identifies the source of that quotation. Double points if you can also identify the episode it was in). In non-waiting news, here’s an update on my thesis progress:a a draft of chapter 1 (I’d say about 80% […]
While taking a little break from work, I was perusing some blogs and saw on this site (which I had clicked on a link to from Dave’s site) a new fun toy on the net! Frappr lets you create maps of where you and all your friends are. You can also use it to map […]
Although I’m generally a logical, scientific-type of person, I must admit that I am superstitious. Case in point: when I first emailed the profs in California about postdocs positions, I put their replies into a folder marked “postdoc” (I’m a bit neurotic about keeping all my emails, so I have a well-developed e-filing system… I […]