Archive for the ‘dissertation’ Category
conferencing
I give my conference paper today. Here’s hoping… I’m not wildly happy with it but I just think I’m being wildly too hard on myself and it’s fine for the occasion and for the stage I’m at in my work. And after that? Application fun.
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should be celebrating…
I just finished writing another chapter…I might say a bit more about that in another post. I should be happy about it; and really I am. But instead of relaxing, I’m just drowning in frustration. I’m not going to get into all the ways I’m frustrated at the moment but there are many. I’m frustrated […]
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losing the battle
I’ve taken a few weeks off from the archives to write up a very rough draft of one of my chapters. It’s the second week of this break and I still haven’t begun actual writing. Once again, the challenge of reading through these sources is so mammoth that I have determined my general argument and […]
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just one of them days
The archives just aren’t happening today. I have a lot of moments like this morning when I wake up and I’m just not going anywhere. Today, I’m helped by the wretched weather; easily the worst day of rain since I’ve been here. It’s been a pleasant surprise that this England spring has been relatively rain […]
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starting again
Still a lot going on on my end. I ended up having the meeting with my advisor which went surprisingly well. I got a lot of good feedback and I finally have some sense of direction. So yay!!! Still there’s much to be done, including the vast majority of research for the project (which is […]
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celebration
Chapter done and sent!!! I probably won’t be doing much related to academe for a week or so. Blogging may be light.
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some progress, part 1
I’m still writing that chapter; I’m trying to be done with it in a week or so. Yesterday I printed the rambling prose, notes, and quotes that I’ve been doing while reading sources. It’s 120 pages. So here’s the goal for this week: to boil down 120 pages of scattered and disorganized chaos into a […]
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writer’s fatigue
So I can’t meet with my adviser, which means I’m writing blind. It also means I’m writing feverishly with the hope that I can write a chapter that my adviser can read by the beginning of next month so I can get some feedback (in the form, hopefully, of a meeting next month) before I […]
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should i give up?
Seeing how my adviser and I have had no communication since last spring, I tried to set up a meeting a few weeks ahead of a planned trip to my university. I mentioned the week I would be in town and suggested a date. That date didn’t work for my adviser, who then suggested a […]
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some thoughts on process
Despite still being disheartened by the nonexistent advising/mentoring/support network in my professional life, I’ve managed to keep plugging away at this chapter. This chapter is a big mess, frankly, but that’s no real surprise, given how difficult I found the research. Surprisingly, though, some interesting arguments are starting to emerge. In the past, I’ve had […]
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lines ever more unclear 