I can almost taste the sweet tang of freedom

[alias_sqbr]

My supervisor emailed me last night, and by 8am I'd done everything she asked. More importantly, she basically said "Do as many of these as you can,. but really just hand it in". Woot! So I am so handing it in tomorrow. I'd hand it in today if it wasn't for stupid uni being closed on Sundays (damn you uni!)

Anyway, I had nothing to do and was (am) all hyped up on a third of a cup of tea (mmm..tea. I love tea, I wish I could drink it more often) so sorted through the folders of papers and drafts I've accumulated over the past 6.5 years (counting honours) resulting in...THE PILE:




It'd be a lot bigger but I had periodic cleanups. So..anyone know if Terracon has fireplaces? I feel like burning some drafts >:D

The stuff I'm keeping (about half of which is notes from relevant 3rd/4th yr units) is the pile of coloured folders behind, plus the shoebox of misc unsorted papers.

Comments

[miss-kittylix.livejournal.com]

:) Congratulations! It must feel amazing to finally finish it all.

[nephron.livejournal.com]

Why can't you drink tea more often?

[alias_sqbr]

It makes me nauseous, plus I just react badly to caffeine (the down is almost always disproportionate to the up). Also it's plausibly the cause of the reflux I've been having the last few days (that or the rather crap apricot pie) which may be reason enough to avoid even my approx-once-a-year half-a-cup *is very sad*

Stupid parents hooking me on the stuff. Though I suppose they did successfully keep me away from coffee, alcohol and cigarettes, which I'm pretty sure would make me feel much worse.

[nephron.livejournal.com]

Have you tried decaf tea?

[alias_sqbr]

Ewwwwww. Yes, yes I have.

I find I get more enjoyment out of Rooibos (herbal pseudo tea), since at least then I can use like 3 bags and know there's still no caffeine.

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

My friend Mike made a big mobile out of all the CD backups of his thesis he made along the way.

[alias_sqbr]

Cd backups? Hmm..yeah, that might have been an idea. Oh well :)

[mpfl.livejournal.com]

Don't burn it! If you become a Nobel Laureate or something one day, I bet some library or another would love to have all of your PhD thesis notes.

[alias_sqbr]

Don't worry, these are mostly stuff like 15 very-slightly-different drafts of this big paper I helped write or 2001 M131 assignment solutions. I've kept all the notes on stuff that didn't make it into the thesis unless they were so incoherently scrawled I couldn't tell what they meant :)

Also, the chances of me becoming a nobel laureate are pretty small. The chances of one of my supervisors going "I've decided to look into that stuff you didn't end up pursuing, can I have a look at your notes?", on the other hand, are quite high, since it happened twice during the course of my phd.