Comments on: Dissertating http://mmeperpetua.wordpress.com Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Perpetua http://mmeperpetua.wordpress.com/dissertations-only-bite-when-provoked/#comment-60 Perpetua Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:01:15 +0000 http://mmeperpetua.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-60 Thanks for the cheering-on. That's what my advisor wanted me to do--tweak the thing into original territory. But as I'm not one to take good advice, I scrapped my original plan and cooked up something new. Who knows what will come of it, but the goal right now is just to finish. Or to start, rather. Academia=Geographic Center of Assholery. That I ended up here kinda makes me question my character. Thanks for the cheering-on. That’s what my advisor wanted me to do–tweak the thing into original territory. But as I’m not one to take good advice, I scrapped my original plan and cooked up something new. Who knows what will come of it, but the goal right now is just to finish. Or to start, rather.

Academia=Geographic Center of Assholery. That I ended up here kinda makes me question my character.

]]> By: anna http://mmeperpetua.wordpress.com/dissertations-only-bite-when-provoked/#comment-59 anna Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:30:10 +0000 http://mmeperpetua.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-59 Somebody just sent their book to press on my dissertation topic. If I weren't dicking around for so long I suppose that could have been me, but I realized that 1) she had missed huge portions of relevant material on the topic, like gaping wound things; and 2) who cares, I fucking hate academia anyway. Not that this probably makes you feel any better. But, with literature it is always possible to tweak a topic enough to make it original, IMO. (my PhD is in English). Good luck! There IS light at the end of the tunnel. Somebody just sent their book to press on my dissertation topic. If I weren’t dicking around for so long I suppose that could have been me, but I realized that 1) she had missed huge portions of relevant material on the topic, like gaping wound things; and 2) who cares, I fucking hate academia anyway.

Not that this probably makes you feel any better. But, with literature it is always possible to tweak a topic enough to make it original, IMO. (my PhD is in English).

Good luck! There IS light at the end of the tunnel.

]]> By: hilbertthm90 http://mmeperpetua.wordpress.com/dissertations-only-bite-when-provoked/#comment-30 hilbertthm90 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:26:15 +0000 http://mmeperpetua.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-30 Have you read Woman on the Edge of Time? Hmm...speculative fiction=pretty awesome. My one qualm is the emphasis on time-travel. That happens to be the one area of the genre I don't like. The only time-travel novel that I left feeling like there wasn't major problems that rendered the novel to a point of unbearable was Slaughterhouse-five. Any recommendations to change my mind? Have you read Woman on the Edge of Time? Hmm…speculative fiction=pretty awesome. My one qualm is the emphasis on time-travel. That happens to be the one area of the genre I don’t like.

The only time-travel novel that I left feeling like there wasn’t major problems that rendered the novel to a point of unbearable was Slaughterhouse-five. Any recommendations to change my mind?

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