interesting read

so was giving a book "completing your thesis" by a dear friend, who is currently also in the same stuck, bored predicament of yet to complete, pending thesis. we are both getting there, really well actually, and have had numerous coffee and insanity sessions venting our frustrations, pains, hatreds etc. but alas there is still a little more work to be done on the beast. then its bonfire and get absolutely shitfaced time. rad. its proving to be good inspiration. but while reading the book the other day, to get some tips or further information about layout etc, i came upn this very interesting little section.

keeping up the motivation:
Almost every student writing a thesis goes through dips of depression, insecurity about the quality of the wiriting, anxiety about the thesis requirements and non-thesis related prolems that nevertheless impact on the thesis production. in the beginning of the process especially, you may still be trying to find your 'academic feet'. Indeed, at many stages of the thesis writing, you'll need to be reassured and motivated. It is easy for one's emerging academic self-confidence to be destroyed.

student responses to the thesis:

• enthusiasm (when??!)
• isolation
• boredom or loss of motivation:

if the work is proceeding as it should, you may lapse into a sense of the thesis being too predictable. alternatively, you may suffer from the 'getting nowehere' syndrome.

• frustration and anxiety
• pressure to finish (haha)
• seperation anxiety:

while some students cant wait to rid of the thesis, other close to the completion of the thsis suffer from seperation anxiety. often thsi manifests itself in your making numerous unwarranted and insignificant editorial changes, questioning the validity of your work, and wanting to incorporate additional readings.

its nearly done, just get there already.