April 9, 2010

  • So this is my first Xanga entry in about six months and I am still stuck in terms of the thesis

    ... so far I have spent three years trying to get this Masters and one year of that has been devoted entirely to this thesis ... and right now ... given that May is just around the corner ... it looks that I'll be spending another frustrating year try to get this Masters .... that's four years to get a Masters ... I could have gotten an entirely new Bachelors degree ... I would be one year short of a Ph.D ....

    ... when it looked like I wouldn't finish the thesis within the two years of the degree I kept going .... I figured I had put too much work in to give up on the thesis and I would just need an extra semester  .... well that turned into two extra semesters and may turn into three .... all because the professors are just not motivated to work with students on a Masters Thesis .... I just recently turned in what *might* be my final draft to my adviser a week ago ... from prior experience I know not to expect drafts back for about two weeks and then after I make whatever changes are needed it will probably be about four weeks until I can get the committee together for the defense ... but ... unfortunately the semester will be over by then ... so no matter what it looks like the defense isn't getting done until next September ...

    I should have taken the Comps

    ... sure I got great research experience ... I created this study from the ground up ... ran it myself ... collected and analyzed my own data ... presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference ... but ... in the mean time, I have been working full time at a Bachelors degree level salary to pay for a Masters degree worth of debt ...

    ... I've never been this delayed on anything academic ... and right now this thesis is looking like I'm just going to fail miserably at completing it in a reasonable amount of time .... and be stuck looking for a last minute way of sealing the deal on this Masters ....

    ... if this were preliminary research on a dissertation ... or even an entire dissertation .... I would have been done three months ago ... seriously ... Is it because I'm in the Masters program that my time is somewhat less valuable and OK to waste?

    .... at some point I'm going to have to say enough is enough and take the Comps ... which is going to be terrible because it in essence means that I failed at this thesis ....