This sign is posted on the door to the walk-in freezer across the hall from my lab: I appreciate the light hearted way that they warn you about the possibility of your imminent death by freezing. I also like how it says “This should be fixed in a few days…” That sign has been up […] →Read more
Best.Birthday Present.Ever
An offer for a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford. That sure beats a kick in the pants. (Although finding out that Gordon Campbell* was arrested for drunk driving in Maui on my bday in 2003 wasn’t too bad of a gift — for his mug shot, click here). On the whole though, I have to say […] →Read more
28
…for 19 more minutes! Oh glorious, glorious 28! →Read more
195
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 […] →Read more
UBC, yeah you know me
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 […] →Read more
Acknowledgements
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 […] →Read more
Out, out damn lit review
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 […] →Read more
Brevity is… wit
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 […] →Read more
Merry Thesis-mas
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 […] →Read more
Happy Holidays!!
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 […] →Read more