Thesis version 0.1 beta
Wow.
It’s a very basic thing at the moment but it’s got a title page, table of contents, chapters and a bibliography.
It’s so dodgy at the moment I’m not even willing to consider it a 1st draft but it’ll do for sending to my supervisors and seeing if it hangs together at all. It doesn’t even have a full introduction yet, and probably all of the chapters could be 25% to 50% longer than they are. I hope it’s more like 25%.
I’ve realised:
- that I’ve been really lazy when it comes to putting references in, given the stringy nature of my bibliography;
- I might need at least one “interlude” chapter to explain various jumps;
- I obviously didn’t understand LaTeX when I started writing because there are times when I’ve skipped entire heading levels;
- I might need a whole big section in my penultimate chapter to account for a great new idea I’ve had recently.
Yay.
sick! that is awesome! must be a relief!?!?
i am jealous.
::weep::
during the dot-com boom I could’ve sold my unfinished phd as a start up company and then divested myself of a controlling interest before the collapse. I could’ve returned to it later, picking up the more interesting bits, and not had to worry about stupid time limits and the like…
Comment by Glen — October 3, 2005 @ 8:44 am
It’s a combination of relief and abject terror. Until now it was just a “thing” that I was going to get around to one day.
Now an end is in sight and I feel compelled to finish.
Comment by Ben — October 4, 2005 @ 2:37 am