On doing it right

Today, a milestone happened.

Today, I have 3,000 words of notes for my thesis. All from just three books, mind you, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to take twice or four times as many notes as there will be actual words in the finished object, but this is significant (I haven't written up my notes for the Plato or Theocritus yet, nor yet the dramatists). This is a magic number.

I can believe in the reality of my thesis now. Three thousand words is more than a twentieth of fifty thousand, which is the minumum requirement of a master's thesis. If I can take three thousand words' worth of notes a month for the next six months, I will account myself happy with my progress.

And then all I have to do is convince my supervisor that this thesis was made for a PhD.

On doing it right

Today, a milestone happened.

Today, I have 3,000 words of notes for my thesis. All from just three books, mind you, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to take twice or four times as many notes as there will be actual words in the finished object, but this is significant (I haven't written up my notes for the Plato or Theocritus yet, nor yet the dramatists). This is a magic number.

I can believe in the reality of my thesis now. Three thousand words is more than a twentieth of fifty thousand, which is the minumum requirement of a master's thesis. If I can take three thousand words' worth of notes a month for the next six months, I will account myself happy with my progress.

And then all I have to do is convince my supervisor that this thesis was made for a PhD.