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Well, that's done.
Oct. 20th, 2006 09:39 pmI'm finished.
Sort of.
The main text is finally tweaked to my liking. All the pictures, illustrations, tables, maps, and other figures are in place and labeled properly. References have been checked and double checked to make certain they're all there. The appendices, which took me all damn night and half of today, are finished. I have a table of contents and an abstract. Working on the lists of tables and figures now, thankfully just a copy-and-paste job. Still have to do acknowledgements and page numbering, as well as make sure in what order all the fiddly bits at the beginning are supposed to be.
Sadly, I can't get it to the bindery until Monday, but that will give me time to triple check everything. I need to find a good place in town to get it printed, on good paper so the photos will turn out. And maybe get someone, like my mother, to give it a read-through. I hate the thought of there being any little typos I've missed, things I won't be able to fix b/c it'll be hardbound and out of my hands and future students will read it and catch these things and shake their heads and go "tsk" at it.
Or I could be just paranoid. Either one, really.
95 pages. God, that's the most massive thing I've ever written.
The goal here is to get at least 72% on this thesis. I forgot to post about it before, but we finally had those external examiner meetings, so they finally gave us our results back from the taught portion of the course. I got a B - 68% with the possibility of a distinction. So close to an A, dammit. Happily, the thesis can make up for those percentage points. I need a 72% to get a distinction for the master's degree overall. And, while I'm happy to get the degree at all, now that it's tangible and has a number to it, I do want the distinction. Probably won't mean anything to anyone later on down the road, but it'll mean something to me.
Sort of.
The main text is finally tweaked to my liking. All the pictures, illustrations, tables, maps, and other figures are in place and labeled properly. References have been checked and double checked to make certain they're all there. The appendices, which took me all damn night and half of today, are finished. I have a table of contents and an abstract. Working on the lists of tables and figures now, thankfully just a copy-and-paste job. Still have to do acknowledgements and page numbering, as well as make sure in what order all the fiddly bits at the beginning are supposed to be.
Sadly, I can't get it to the bindery until Monday, but that will give me time to triple check everything. I need to find a good place in town to get it printed, on good paper so the photos will turn out. And maybe get someone, like my mother, to give it a read-through. I hate the thought of there being any little typos I've missed, things I won't be able to fix b/c it'll be hardbound and out of my hands and future students will read it and catch these things and shake their heads and go "tsk" at it.
Or I could be just paranoid. Either one, really.
95 pages. God, that's the most massive thing I've ever written.
The goal here is to get at least 72% on this thesis. I forgot to post about it before, but we finally had those external examiner meetings, so they finally gave us our results back from the taught portion of the course. I got a B - 68% with the possibility of a distinction. So close to an A, dammit. Happily, the thesis can make up for those percentage points. I need a 72% to get a distinction for the master's degree overall. And, while I'm happy to get the degree at all, now that it's tangible and has a number to it, I do want the distinction. Probably won't mean anything to anyone later on down the road, but it'll mean something to me.
