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5013242 No.5013242 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw I have a 200,000 word PhD thesis to write
>tfw I have only three months left to do it entirely (I did nothing in the last 5 years)
>tfw teens on /lit/ complain when they have a whopping total of 700 words to write for monday
>I STILL BELIEVE I CAN DO IT

>> No.5013252
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5013252

>tfw your lungs and liver are kill

>> No.5013262

Guy writing the 700 word essay here. You're so clever. Pay me a grand and I'll write your essay. I work at my school's writing center.

>> No.5013267

>>5013252
pls do not mention my liver, i try not to think about it too often

thx

>> No.5013271

>tfw when haiku due two weeks from now and haven't even started

>> No.5013278

>>5013242

You can do it.

Just write it on something that you know closely, something that you can speak of with knowledge, authority, or even better... Something nobody can really claim as their own realm. Like...

"The Global Agora: Internet, Civil Society, and Digital Governance"

And yet another idea that flees me...

>> No.5013296

200,000 words in 3 months is actually do-able.

3*30 = 90 days, 200000/90 = 2222.2

2000 words per day, it's borderline, but you can do it. In Australia you can get a 6 months extension, too, not sure about US.

>> No.5013307

>>5013296
2000 quality words a day

>> No.5013309

how did your supervisor let you get away with this

>> No.5013314

>>5013309
he believed in me, more than myself, unfortunately...

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5013316

>250,000 word thesis due tomorrow
>still browsing /lit/

>> No.5013317

>>5013307
If you've done absolutely no original work then you're a hopeless case (your supervisor should have been bugging you for chapters for months now). If you're just summarizing previous works (like a literature review) 2000 words is absolutely do-able, and should take 9-11 hours of work per day.

>> No.5013319

>>5013307
>2000 quality words a day

ok if you want quality you need some ritalin or modafinil.

should be pretty straightforward if you know your subject well.

>> No.5013320

>>5013314
what is your thesis

>> No.5013322

>>5013262
I'm not even paid to write my 200,000 words (actually 150,000 are enough), while many people in my college earn $2,500 per month for this. Disgusting.

>>5013278
I hope you realize my subject was chosen 5 years ago... I can't change it.
Still doable, but tougher and tougher since I visit 4chan instead of writing.

>> No.5013324

this is whyh I'm a drop out taoist zen NEET

>> No.5013325

>>5013322
you sound like a fucking bum so how did you even get into a phd program in the first place? is your dad a banker or something

>> No.5013334

>>5013320
I have no thesis. I was impersonating OP.

But I might steal this one, since nobody gives a single fuck about anything anymore:

>"The Global Agora: Internet, Civil Society, and Digital Governance"

>> No.5013342

>>5013334
>>"The Global Agora: Internet, Civil Society, and Digital Governance"

oh jesus does the world need more theses like this? seriously, formal education is so goofy

>> No.5013351

>>5013242
I have seen this picture before.
Time passes in cycles.
I am trapped in an infinite loop with slight variations

>> No.5013356

>>5013342

Of course not.

But it gets you some fancy treatment "Doctor", and people listen to you when you speak, with a certain degree of respect.

But also, maybe the people that gives respect if you have been brain smashed during years inside a Doctorate lab, are probably not the best people to get respect from; and the people you might want to get respect from, doesn't respect anything that comes from words.

So then again, life collapses in yet another unsolvable conundrum.

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>>5013351
>infinite loop
Aw shit, fuck you, apple. Git out of muh brain.

>> No.5013385

>>5013296
Man, when I'm actually writing, I churn out 9,000 to 10,000 quality words a day... The problem is that I'm extra lazy (writing 10,000 words in a row is tiresome, stressful and obsessive) and I'm consistently doing 0 words a day for 2014... I can do it, but it truly feels horrendous, unhealthy, sad now. Not the best mindset to say: "Let's stop procrastinating and write today!"

>>5013309
He's busy and doesn't care.

>>5013317
I have some originals ideas written down, my plan is complete, and I've read like 30 solid books (the essentials). I know exactly what to say, I just have 480 pages to write out of 500.
I'll probably work 14 hours per day.

>> No.5013392

>>5013385
Godspeed!

>> No.5013393

>>5013385
it makes me kind of sad that this is all a liberal arts phd requires: read 30 books and write a 500 page book report. so if i read 30 books on a thing does that mean i know as much as a phd guy.

>> No.5013400

>>5013325
My father is very poor and so am I.
Education is cheap in my country, like $1,000 per year (I can afford those $1,000 because I'm a teacher in my college at the same time... I pay them with their own money.)

>> No.5013401

>>5013385
>procrastinate
>some original ideas
>know exactly what to say
>just have to write it

exactly the same situation i've been in with most of my undergrad essays, what you're looking at here is the ultimate all-nighter. but instead of a night it's a month. this is why i could never do a phd, id probably end up like you.

>> No.5013405

U = E x V / I x D

>desire to complete the task (U)
>the expectation of success (E)
>the value of completion (V)
>the immediacy of task (I)
>the personal sensitivity to delay (D)

>> No.5013416

>>5013393
I'm not doing liberal arts.
Those 30 books are the obvious basics, nothing advanced. But I know them well. I actually have a lot of "lesser" or "filler" books and articles to read in the next three months; it will take 35 days out of 90.

>> No.5013423

>>5013351
4chan:
browse '/lit/'
remark 'it's always shit'
add 'to do', 'get out of the basement'
ljmp not4chan


not4chan:
masturbate, sleep or eat
delete 'to do'
ljmp 4chan

end

>> No.5013428

>>5013322
smash the modem with a fucking hammer

>> No.5013439

>>5013428
No need to be so drastic.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock/

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>>5013385
There is always a way out of this shit, anon.

>> No.5013446

>>5013439
You can uninstall addons. You have to violently destroy anything that gets in the way of your life. I also do babysitting

>> No.5013563

Thanks for your comments, in my poor situation any word can help...

>>5013401
We all could be great men without the Internet!

>>5013428
Will do.

I'll be back in three months, /lit/.

>> No.5013578

>>5013242
Those teenagers are smarter than you. Maybe you should just drop out of your PhD candidacy now, considering you don't know how to do something as simple as plan or set goals.