Day 139

It's done. I made a pdf. Well, so, there may be changes after the defense. I don't know. This is the version I will be submitting to the office next Thursday. 101 pages. Lost 2 pages but am still 3 digits!

Day 135

Got my last set of figures. Took all day, learned a lot, blah blah. Time to finish this sucker up!

Day 132

I hit triple digits! Incredible. Never believed it would happen. And I still have figures to generate and input. Chapter 3 is more or less revised. I'll probably have to come back to it though.

My paper got rejected, whoop whoop. Good thing the way out is through The Thesis and not A Paper, though I think it means I won't ever get hired into a PhD level engineering job. I don't feel conflicted, though. I think I'm leaving engineering research for good. On the plus side, I will probably go into lab lore as the student who graduated without a publication. This will probably

1. offer hope to future grad students also, uh, "fortunate" enough to be in this lab with an "exciting" project
   
2. make me a "success" story to grad students in therapy
   
3. shame my advisor? I'm sure it's embarrassing. Eh, no one outside the lab will ever hear about me.

On the other hand, there's another student that will probably graduate without a paper, so I might lose the distinction. On the other other hand, there's another non-graduating student on that paper that probably cares, so I'll probably keep the distinction. On the other other other hand, if for the itty bitty chance that my advisor asks me to send the paper to another journal, of course I'll do it, at the risk of losing my distinction. Oh well. Fame could be overrated.

By the way, the reviewer comment was right on. And to fix it, eh, would require another 4-6 weeks of work on my part, if lucky. If there was a new student, maybe 8-10 weeks. And that's not counting the write-up portion of resubmitting with new data. That could be short though. I'm babbling now. I am more than willing to give authorship to any soul out there that needs one and wants to do this go-nowhere project for 10 weeks.

Day 128

After another haitus in Cali, I did some more work today.

I finished a revision for Chapter 2. Next up, Chapter 3. Some new figures need to be put in but I need help getting them. In the meantime, I'm writing up the analysis as if I had the figures already. Tedious and dull work.