I am working on the last chapter of my dissertation. This is good, of course, because that is the last chapter, and also because the final deadline is now breathing down my neck. The last Chapter has been the most emotionally painful so far. After revisiting years of experiments, what have I added to the field? Did we discover what we thought we would? No, I thought I was going to find some life-saving drugs, and we didn't. It's hard to verbally justify this: "I tried REALLY hard, but... sometimes science doesn't respond to that." I am supposed to describe how the project should continue into the future, even though I feel we pretty well plumped the available options already-I find myself tempted to suggest it might be preferable to just "Cure AIDS," as if no one had considered that option before.
The next two chapters need to get to Dr. Boss by the end of the week, so I am hoping to incorporate comments from my coworkers... soon. And get this final chapter out to coworkers for comments. This week seems crazy busy. I am not really sure why I feel so acutely worried about my pending joblessness, but that isn't helping anything.
Stats: 36 days until Defense- 28 days until I submit my document
Dissertation is now 186 pages long
445 references
26 figures and 11 tables
The first table of contents is 4 pages long...
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