You're too hard on yourself, as I suspect we all are. You get a blue ribbon for first-place finish! I wasn't sure if any of us would finish on time. Many ahead of us took extra time and they didn't have an extra 4-month SAE. And many after us will take extra time and they won't have totally random comps. So there. Besides, they don't write "(but needed historical revisions!)" on the diploma or stitch a shame badge on the ridiculous hat & gown you'll have to wear. Big revisions are not a Barry-Bonds-steroids-asterix situation.
whiskey, I couldn't have said it better. kelly_jones, you committed scholar/weiner, you defended successfully! You have to do revisions just like everyone else does, but those'll get done fast. You have a post-doc and are marrying an awesome strapping young lad this summer. Begin celebrations immediately or I'll switch the brawl plans so that janey and I pound you.
Well congratulations then! I know revisions are a disappointing denouement, but I don't know anyone who didn't have them. I, for example, had two days to change my entire thesis from passive voice to active voice.
As if that made any improvement to a science thesis. Sheesh.
But active voice is so much more exciting to read! Hee hee - English nerd alert. You're right, of course, revisions are anticlimactic but always necessary. Especially in English, where passive voice would probably get you flunked.
For the record (and I was there), Dr. Jones was brilliant, confident and charming at her defense. There was some kind of literature-history turf war going on that has been going on "since the dawn of time" (to quote an undergrad, any undergrad) and so was clearly beyond Dr. J's control. Pissing contest aside, there was excellent discussion, the revisions are a necessary evil, and obviously everyone knows that Dr. J is up to the task. And then some.
Plus she was wearing excellent shoes. Perhaps more important than this whole thesis thing are the shoes.
I don't like it when people critic my kids, which is like your thesis. I suppose you can't start yelling "get away from my thesis or I'll call the police you pervert!" Which is what I've taken to when people piss me off in public and talk about my kids. Self-important sales people run away. Anyhow, I'm assuming the historains are mostly wrong and posturing over semantics. Rewrites are good as they give you chance to reread your awsome writings. Every third page or so one must stop and say "I wrote that, I'm so hot."
I'm going to fly you in not as a thug, but as some form of graduate guidance counsellor. I would love to yell "get away from my thesis you pervert!" at people. But repeating "I wrote that, I'm so hot" may be even better.
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Kelly, postpone celebrations INDEFINITELY. Brawl begins now.
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As if that made any improvement to a science thesis. Sheesh.
Party on, girly girl.
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Partying on, done and done.
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Plus she was wearing excellent shoes. Perhaps more important than this whole thesis thing are the shoes.
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