THESIS IS DONE!!!
Well, done in terms of writing. I might still need to edit a few more times (if I have the time or can be bothered). I don't really want to go through my thesis again. It was so painful to write that it would just be torture to read it again so soon after writing it.
The feeling of finishing the thesis is so awesome. It was like a massive wave of euphoria engulfed me. I really wanted to do cartwheels down the hallway in joy, but there were others in the lab plus my prior experience regarding hallways and cartwheels was not positive (although no alcohol was involved this time lol). I can only imagine that the feeling tomorrow when I actually hand it in - it's gonna be a million times better than right now.
The thesis now stands at 14000 words of content, and at 76 pages with everything included. My "whole" year has been for the sole purpose of creating this piece of work. And now that's done, it does feel like I've accomplished something major.
The issue that I have is that I absolutely hate one aspect of APA formatting where you're not allowed to have a gap between the previous paragraph and the next subheading/heading. Between normal paragraphs is OK, but I think that a gap is necessary if changing to a different topic area. I've always done it my way, and have never been told otherwise during the earlier years. And I refuse to change it. I tried doing it, and the ugliness of my thesis made me want to vomit. To me, it was just that bad. I've been working my whole year for this thesis. I should be able to look at it and feel happy about it. If the markers are petty enough to deduct marks for that bloody gap, then I honestly have no idea what to say. All other aspects of APA formatting, I've followed. I just really hate the fact that you can't have a bloody gap. I'm keeping it the way I want it (and besides, I followed the formatting of a previous year's thesis which got a HD). We'll just see what happens, not that I would know whether they had an issue with my "gaps". Regardless, as long as I'm happy with my work, that's the best anyone can hope for.
And in Europe news, I finally bought my travel insurance today.
HBL signing out.
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