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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, after feeling insanely sleepy for a good few hours there, at some point something kicked in and I have powered through to 10pm and my methods section is pretty much 95% complete!!!

The intro is about 75% after yesterday's efforts - held back by the very late-stage discovery of a key paper that throws a whole bunch of things out and I have to incorporate into the intro and discussion. So I'm going to have to prioritise reading that, but...

...my discussion section is a total shambles.

shambles ramblesI really have neglected it completely and it's just a bunch of half-finished sentences and disorganised dot points. Really, this is the important bit of the paper so I shouldn't be rushing it, but at this point I'm going to have to summarise a lot of it as:

  • Wow, the results of A, B and C were really obvious! just like X and Y said!
  • But these things weren't so great, possibly because of the phenomenon described in Z
  • Still you should totally use C because A and B alone aren't enough
  • Also here is a scenario model which proves my point
  • But also it has 35930940249 assumptions lol
  • Future research could address all of that, but anyway, at least this thing gets the ball rolling
  • kthxbai

I think my game plan for tomorrow is to seriously flesh out the discussion section, references be damned, and get the main points/flow of discussion correct. Because I simply won't have anything even remotely submittable without that. THEN I can get into that stupid paper and figure out how much I need to wedge in and try and finish that remaining 25% of the intro...

Sigh. I was hoping I'd be done by end of Monday but I'll have to accept spending my birthday still working on this stupid thing. If I can finish by the end of Tuesday at least then I can luxuriate!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I am just like ๐Ÿ˜ at your analysis of how you work and of your work.

pretty awesome

at least this thing gets the ball rolling

I think this is the key, yes? To get into a flow state.