Given that I spent all day attempting to pull together a research progress presentation scheduled for tomorrow and still have nothing, at this point I think I have two alternatives if I want to graduate in a couple months:
- Pay someone to write my thesis for me
- Go on ADD medication for the next 6 weeks
I would sacrifice up to $1000 for someone to write my thesis, and I’m pretty certain it wouldn’t be a problem for me to get a prescription for some psychiatric medication (even though I don’t have any form of ADD). The trouble is, I have this predisposition towards honesty that wouldn’t allow me to cheat, and I don’t do drugs (and I'm skeptical that medication would help me anyway, since I'm suffering more from boredom than an inability to focus). So I’m not really sure where that leaves me...
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Gah. Sorry that you're in such a yucky situation at the moment. I think if I were to chose it, option 1 would haunt me for the rest of my life.
Wouldnt' the problem be inability to focus -caused by boredom-? I dunno.
You could also pay someone to coach you through it, if that would help--either someone who is really just a straight "coach" and doesn't necessarily know anything about engineering, or someone who can both help you with stuff and get on your case to make you do things. I'm sure there are lots of people around who've done theses before or even helped coach others who would do that for $$.
Ah, Miriam, thanks for the sympathy and advice, but you do take me too seriously :). I was using my blog as a venting space. Granted that the next 6 weeks are going to suck, I'll manage to get my thesis done (somehow), as I managed to get my presentation mostly done before midnight on Thursday. The key thing is to make sure I can keep my advisor's expectations as LOW as possible.
And yes the problem could be "inability to focus -caused by boredom," however, in all honesty on Thursday, I was making progress during the day, but it didn't seem that way, since I did waste a LOT of time, and I spent the rest of the time trying to make sense of what I was going to present. But I procrastinated only because I knew I could pull together an actual presentation in a few hours, although I also knew that the more time I wasted, the worse it would be...(oh well)
I take *everything* too seriously, it seems :)
Good luck!
I take *everything* too seriously
But you shouldn't...I too often make the mistake of taking things too seriously myself, so I talk from experience ;).
But you shouldn't...
man do I need to follow that advice. I'll work on it.
LOL.
When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, "To know one's self." And what was easy, "To advise another."
-Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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