- Introduction: written, in the last 2.5 days. Still pretty rough, but I think everything's in there. Except most of the references. Emailed to Advisors today, because one of them expressed interest in providing guidance/feedback. Any bets on if it will actually get read before I have to distribute the diss to my committee?
- Chapter 1: written, needs revision. This is the Poopsicle, which was meant to be Chapter 2 but we decided to put it the first position to deal with the data issues (the conclusion will be: this method sucks, other methods are way better, I used the better methods in the rest of the chapters - see?). Thus, I had to revamp the intro to the chapter, which I did today. I also redid some of the stats, and I still have to incorporate those results in the results and discussion sections. Plus fill in some more references and some general editing for style.
- Chapter 2: totally done. This is the one that is already accepted for publication, so it won't change other than formatting.
- Chapter 3: written. First draft went to Advisors in July. One never read it. One gave me really general comments in September. I revised it and sent it back. No reply. I do, however, have comments from a friend to help me polish it.
- Chapter 4: written. Emailed to Advisors on Saturday afternoon. Hopefully at least one of them will at least skim it before I have to distribute the diss. Still need to fill in a few last references.
- Conclusions: not started. But this part will be short.
- Formatting: not done. Started last night, then Word crashed and took my formatted chapter with it. Gah! I will have lots of time after my defense to get it just right for the Graduate College, so for now it just has to be formatted well enough for my committee to navigate it.
- Abstract, acknowledgments, table of contents, references: not done. Although each chapter has it's own reference list that I will have to fold into one. Did I mention that I'm a jackass who doesn't use reference managing software? I will be doing this manually.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Final lap
Okay, I'm starting to spaz. I have a week, maybe a week and a half to finish my diss. I have a lot left to do. That means I'm in dissertation jail this week. Here's the status.
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Good luck! You'll do it and be fine! And for heaven's sake, get some reference managing software--does your lab have Endnote? Even with only a week left, the time spent learning a reference managing program should be more than made up by the time you'll save (Endnote is pretty intuitive, and I assume the rest are as well)
Good luck with all that. My list at that time was a little longer, but then I used Endnote.
GOOD LUCK!!! You can do it. Your list is pretty short I think!
Rock on! and yeah manage your references. and dont blog unless you want our comiseration. A short "aarrrggghh!" will do ;)
good luck! don't loose your mind, it's almost over! And yeah, ENDNOTE! Apart from a few glitches (which I could endure) it saved me when I needed to rewrite a bunch of text in the last minute.
Wow, we really are on the same timeline - good luck!!
Wow, good luck!!! You're in the home stretch!
I didn't use a reference software either for my dis... So you're not alone!
Good luck1
Caroline, I'm glad I'm not the only one, assuming that you wrote your thesis in the past 10 years or so!
Thanks for the encouragement, All. I will post on the Endnote Thing after my thesis is in.
forget EndNote, it will take you forever to get all your refs into it. Try Zotero instead! It's free, and you can drag and drop into it right from the web. I kind of wish I'd started using it before I got all embedded in my current EndNote for refs, Papers for pdfs combo.
I just read through your last four posts and am getting flashbacks about the end of my dissertation. All sounds so similar, I might just wish you luck and catch up with you when you are done, so that I stop getting flashbacks
:)
Good luck finishing up!
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