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The last week, our so-called break between third and fourth affiliations went something like this:
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Monday's presentation was a success. Not nearly as intense and picky of feedback as I remembered from observing last year. I did not mind at all. Tuesday was a 13-hour marathon of re-running stats for improved accuracy, finishing the discussion section, and editing the entire dang-gone thing for APA style, grammar, and content. The APA style part took literally the entire time, with 10 hours of work by one group member (while the rest of us finished other sections) and a 3-hour group edit going from start to finish. Sixty four pages. Didn't get home until midnight. Oy...
Last night we received the final feedback from our primary adviser, which (THANKFULLY!) was a few minor grammar edits or dividing an epic 4-line sentence into two smaller sentences. I was so used to working on research every day in some capacity that I didn't know how to have a normal evening. Ended up creating the title page, approval signature page, and re-writing the abstract from 350 words to 150 words (as is the limit set by the Graduate Center).
Today was two-fold. Step one: the final final final edit. Scan the whole document a dozen times for formatting snafus. Get the damn tables and graphs to go where we want them to go (*grumble*). Attempt an appendix of documents used by the hospital. Can the appendix when, after an hour's worth of attempts, we realize that every attempt to put it in creates formatting problems elsewhere, and decide that it is simply not worth it. Get a table of contents, list of figures/tables, the document header and pagination to reflect two different sequences within one document (that was a first...). Sixty seven pages all in all.
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| The 67 page monstrosity. |
Step two: prep for submission. Run around the building getting signatures. Complete student loan exit counseling in the process. Meet with the dissertation clerk for approval of and notes for any corrections. Only one to be made: a copy/paste of the title page from a format example accidentally left in "Department of History" instead of physical therapy. Hah! Fix the error. Re-scan the document twice. Create PDF. Email PDF to advisers. Drop off flash drive of PDF at the printers (because the Graduate Center requires fancy paper). Printer does not have CDs, so go to a second printer to burn the PDF onto CD (it gets attached inside the back of the binding).
Only a few steps remaining. Pick up the two paper copies, get adviser and department chair signatures, get registrar signatures, and then make our official deposit. That will be next week. Luckily everything is ready and waiting for the trigger pull.
I now can reclaim my evenings, my weekends, my FREE TIME, my SANITY, my mental processing capacity... basically, I can reclaim my life. My last affiliation, the one I'm most excited about (traumatic brain injury!), will have no competition from the mentally and emotionally draining thesis. I am SO SO SO SO relieved.
You have no idea.
*bounce*bounce*bounce*bounce*
Oh right, its a day for YELLING!
*BOUNCE*BOUNCE*BOUNCE*BOUNCE*BOUNCE*
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