What is the cost of a masters' thesis done in 6 months...?
a) 1 stone gain in weight
b) inexplicable bad skin when it's generally clear
c) headaches
d) a newly developed aversion to marmite
e) all of the above
For those of you who answered e) well done, give yourselves a pat on the back! So yeah, here I am, a shadow of my former self, well, a rather solid shadow but one nonetheless.. thankfully I'm 118 pages of bound nonsense on engineering applications in conservation lighter, and after a month of strict 6.5 day working weeks and 6 hour limited sleeps, I'm finally free!!
So I tried to celebrate this by going out drinking and hopefulyl lose a bit of the knowledge I'd acquired but the demons of alcohol weren't having any of it. 6 pints down, 2 double vodka diet cokes and some bizarre cointreau concoction and I still wasn't even hazy. I certainly become more vocal- deciding to pick a fight on a coursemate about feminism and then conspiracy theorists being the voice of reason and also a brief round on a federation of Europe, but not drunk.
Very disappointing.
But, as I say, I've handed in. Now all I have left are two exams- one on 20th century engineers and architecture and one on fire methods. Exciting! Then!! I'm a GRADUATE.
Only the hallowed may utter this word and live to take on a job though. Maybe I'll fail just so that I can graduate next year and be employable.
SeasideMan
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That seems to be the way Master's go in the last month - utterly manic. I was told recently that a PHd is so-called because it stands for "Permanent Head Damage". If you get through it, you either become a completely po-faced academic wanker or get a personality disorder. Thankfully, people seem to recover from Master's!
Well done, but I'm rather surprised all that booze didn't get you drunk. I'd have been slaughtered after all that and I probably weigh at least 50% more than you and have lots of practice.
Tom.