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Yes you're right, I was thinking we were hogging Lacanian's thread a little..do you know how to start one?

Hi everyone, sound like you're all doing so well.
T-minus 6 days until complete draft hand in for me and i have 2 chapters still to correct plus a whole conclusion chapter to write. Eek! Working every hour that the day brings! Good luck everyone

Ah Swetch don't let it get to you - i have had numerous meetings (and a hugely demonalising upgrade) over the past 4 years where i've had really critical feedback, it's normal - although i know it feels rubbish! Think of it as them trying in the only way they can to pick up on where you can make improvements - rather than the examiner doing it. Better to get it sorted now eh? Same goes for extensions, everyone plans to hand in at a set date (mine was a year ago!) but it inevitably gets put back - these things just take longer than we ever think they will. It'll be so much better than a rushed thesis being ripped to bits by the examiner for the sake of getting it in sooner. Just think how much better it'll be by the time you submit. Don't let it get to you and keep at it. December isn't far away at all! :-)

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Good work Slowmo! That's ace news, bet it's such a relief to have submitted!

Hi swetch, did you manage to get it in?

Hi Swetch, that sounds ok though, it's only a few days longer than you'd hoped for handing it in, and it sounds like you're steadily getting through it.
My hard deadline for full draft in is a week on weds, so by the end of this weekend i need to have done corrections on chapters 1,2 and 3, then next week i can concentrate ion writing my concluding chapter..that's the plan anyhow! Am really tired after having allowed myself a few vinos and a stay-up-late last night, but am ploughing through and plan to kep at it until ch 3 is corrected today!
Let me know how it goes this weekend
:-)

I know that feeling so well swetch - when it gets tough it's so much easier to browse the internet or do something else. Stick at it and hope you manage to do what you want to do today. My morning's gone slowly but picking up the pace now. I think lunch helped!

been *ill for a few days

Hi swetch, sorry for the long delay in posts, I've been for a few days with some virusy thing so haven't got nearly as much work done as I'd hoped. Got my intro done but for a few tweaks though and ch 1 is totally corrected. Working on ch3 and 4 corrections today which i hope to finish (ch 2 is harder so saving that for when i feel up to it!) Sounds like you're doing really well, let me know how it goes over the next day or two.

It'd be the equivalent to qualitative i suppose - it is an arts thesis so all theory based, needs to be 80-100,000 words but so far is only about 65,000. Keep at it!

Yey, congratulations! Very pleased for you and your success gives us all hope too, go enjoy your summer now! :)

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Afternoon Swetch,

Sounds like you're really getting down to it now, nice one!
Argh it's one pm and I'm only just starting today! Went to the gym first thing to wake myself up a bit, then the flat upstairs flooded and it all came through the ceiling so have since been cleaning up the water that everything's covered in! Sorted now though.
My absolute deadline for first full draft is end of July, as I' submitting Sept 30th, but I'm away that weekend so it has to be the last Weds in July. Ideally sooner for my supervisors' sakes but unlikely to happen! I'm going to try to finish the intro this afternoon then do some chapter 1 corrections this evening while I have the house to myself. Best of luck today, it sounds like you're pretty on track too and know just where youre going with it. :)

Hey Swetch, just checking in with today's successes and failures! I've managed to get through a couple of thousand words of writing which is good - I've done my chapter summaries (with incorporated - albeit not very thorough - lit reviews) and now just have the methodology to cover in my intro. Am pretty sure i'll have tons of corrections on this though. After that I need to crack on with my conclusion chapter and with correcting my 4 main chapters. I wanted to get the intro in the bag today (well, yesterday in fact) but these things always seem to take longer than planned - even on a good day like today where thre was very little window-staring (although I did manage to sort out my T-shirt drawer for a good hour, oops!)
Hope yours has gone to plan. Hopefully by Thursday when I'm next at home i'll be almost done with this intro. Good luck until then (up)

Good luck Dunni with your viva! You'll be great, just remember that no one knows more about your work than you :)

How's everyone doing today?