Finished

I turned my thesis in yesterday. It's done. I kept waking up last night thinking, "Oh, I've got to change this" and "I forgot to add this." Wait, no , I don't. We bought a bottle of my favorite champagne and drank it.

Next up is my oral defense. I have no idea when it is, but the report is due on Apr 28, so some time within the next two weeks. Wish me luck!

Thesis

I'm in the middle of writing my Master's thesis. I had a meeting with my thesis advisor this morning, and I was really dreading it because she hasn't been much help so far. In fact, I haven't gotten much feedback at all from her except one line e-mail responses saying, "You need to fix this" and a series of cancelled appointments. I had sent her a writing sample to read for the meeting, and I sent her my new outline, and I was honestly expecting her to 1) not have read it or 2) just hand it back to me and say, "This needs work" without giving me any constructive criticism at all. I couldn't have been more wrong.

She HAD read it, and she LIKED it. She said it was GOOD. She was really excited about it. And when I told her how overwhelmed I felt by the project, she CAME UP WITH A PLAN TO HELP ME. It was astonishing.

Plus, I have a meeting with her again tomorrow to start working on the journal at SMU. It doesn't pay anything, but it's great publishing experience, AND I get my name in the journal. Things are looking up!