A Gift From Me to Me
scrappybadger August 17th, 2007
I got the bound copy of my thesis yesterday! It was quite exciting, much more so than I thought it would be. I expected some crappy paperboard binding with a big green strip of library tape holding it all together. Instead, I got a black, hardback copy with the title, year, and my name printed on the outside. I’m almost glad that the university forced to me to buy at least one copy before I could graduate.
This is what my thesis looked like before.
I was playing with my cell phone and took pictures of it in sketch mode. What you’re seeing is the journal that I used for all of my notes and preliminary drafts. You’ll see several tabs sticking out, but those multiplied. Their babies came in every size, color, and shape that you can imagine. Though organized, it was a mess.
This is what my thesis looks like now.
Quite lovely isn’t it? I swear you’d be more impressed if you’d written part of it.
I will treasure it forever and ever, or until I reread it and am so embarrassed that I scratch the fake gold lettering off the outside.
Heh! Well done you! I can’t even LOOK at my MA thesis now. It’s not that it’s bad or anything, I just have such anxiety about spotting something that I could do better now, or, heaven forbid, a typo. I just submitted my doctoral thesis and I expect that eventually i shall have the same reaction to that. Anyway, i came here via Amy’s blog and I like what I see! Cheers, pippa x