t-minus 12 hours
- 18 pages of tables
- 1 of references
- 17 pages of writing
Which is awesome, because that's down from 30 pages of appendices before (sniff, so much work into stuff no one will see) and it means that I'll have more writing than tables (which was actually a concern for a while) as I still have to chat about my main results. Amusingly, shouldn't take that much more writing (don't ask me how much, because the answer is enough).
I have lost almost all respect for papers which have a word or page count. I have no desire to ever write anything so trite as that ever again. Do not speak to me of amounts, of quantity, do not speak to me of all-nighters or difficulty. Until you have seen, until you have experienced thesis you just don't get it.
And just think, this is some pansy Undergraduate thesis. I can only imagine and perhaps glimpse the special hell that is for graduate students.
I am also now acutely aware of the limits of my computer. They are pretty fantastic all said and done, and cause my mind to positively whirr with delight at the idea of inherenting the old server. You mean I could be compressing a file, with multiple programs from the Office suite, Firefox, Adobe, and foobar open, as well as downloading pictures from my camera, uploading a file to YSI and be running regressions in STATA?
*swoon*
Although, it also makes me wonder why people need hardware capable of that shit. Especially if you're not a gamer. What, several hundred times the speed of the computers that sent us to the moon wasn't good enough? Now you need thousands more to browse the internet?!?!?
Erin is asleep on the couch. It is incredibly soothing in an undemanding way that I am not sure I am capable of.
Written On: Home Computer
Currently Listening: LTJ Bukem - Progression Sessions 4 (anyone want me to upload this mix?)
Alternative Title: I like bold and photography!