#dissertation tips

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Dissertation prep is scary but exciting! I can’t believe I’m already having to start this; it feels like I started uni yesterday.

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reviving this blog a few weeks into my master's dissertation, I am looking forward to seeing and interacting with the studyblr community again<3

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As a Masters in Humanitarian Action candidate, I will spare you all the rant, but just know that this account will be what kills me.

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Don't let the distance between where you are and where you want to be scare you out of moving forward.

But how?

This fear is like gravity. I can't feel it pulling me down, it is not prominent. It is not in the top of my head and making me fret every moment. It is not crushing or intense, it is not making me implode.

But it is there. It is keeping me from moving. I am paralyzed without even realizing. It has stopped me from being hopeful, or even looking at the future.

What's the cause? The distance between where I am and where I want to be, rather where I have to be. It is so far because I lagged behind once. And I am lagging behind still because the distance is daunting me now.

It's a loop. One thing feeds the other and vice versa. As time passes, the distance just keeps growing and I am standstill right where I was a year ago. And with the distance grows the fear. I get anxious more and more, and even simple tasks feel monstrous now. It is only a matter of time for me to succumb into the loop: to spiral into a blackhole.

How do I get out of this loop? How do I break this loop? How do I not let the distance scare me? Right now, I am all questions and no answers. I am writing this blog post to lift some weight off my chest and put it out in the open.

What helps you in such moments? Have you escaped the loop before? Or, are you too stuck in a loop like me?

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As a treat for myself after finishing writing my second masters dissertation this evening I am allowing myself to get obsessive about a story I started thinking about yesterday. It takes place on a constructed island a ways of the coast of what remains of the Antarctic in the near future. It's about running away from your life. Upon explaining the premise further to my best friend she tactfully left me on read so make of that what you will.

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the friend group is Going Through It in their internships/unis, meanwhile me

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*dies*

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I had a really wonderful January despite being very busy with uni work! We celebrated me and my girlfriend’s anniversary with a lovely meal and a trip away, and i had the best time with my favourite person ever.

Lots of dissertation editing at the moment while waiting for my new semester to begin next week! I’ve applied for a Masters programme so please keep your fingers crossed for me!

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Do you have any tips on doing accurate research for people without access to formal education

Sure! This can't be one size fits all for every field, but I can give some starting points for history.

If you're reading a book, here's what to consider:

1. Are there footnotes or endnotes? In academia this is our way of being transparent with each other about where you got information. If a book doesn't have them, they're more interested in telling a good story than being accountable to their peers. That's a red flag.

2. Don't trust claims that seem very specific but don't have a source. Broad claims can be the author's analysis. But specific things "so and so said this" "there was a rumor that (x)" should be coming from somewhere and it is the author's job to tell you where.

3. Look out for choppy quoting. Even if someone has a source, they may not be using it well. If someone is paraphrasing a lot and only uses bits and pieces of the text while also using a lot of ellipses, you will want to try to find the whole text to make sure it's being quoted fairly.

4. Look at the publication date. Knowledge changes with time and old books tend to be outdated. You don't have to stick to the academic rule of thumb of "25 years is the threshold for new scholarship" but do be aware that if something is over 50 years old, many many people have likely revisited and revised what it's saying. Not that new books can't also be bad and incorrect, but they tend to be working with better tools generally.

5. Look up the author. I cannot stress this one enough. The author's background and political convictions can matter a lot to how they interpret things. For example, one of the biographies people tend to pick up about my dissertation topic is from the late 1920s by a man who later applied to join the NSDAP. That fact really can't be separated from his interpretations no matter how hard people try.

6. Stop reading if someone is making a lot of moral or personal judgements on a historical figure. I'm talking about the "Elizabeth I was a frigid hag and men found her ugly"-esque takes, not things like calling historical atrocities morally bad. Does it feel like bitchy gossip? That sort of thing is unprofessional, uninformative, and means someone has an axe to grind. Spite can be motivation for research, but axe grinding shouldn't show up clearly in published work.

These are things to keep in mind to make sure you're getting better information. Others are free to add on for their field or if there's something I forgot.

One very important thing to add: professors and academics like people emailing them about their research. You can do that! You can ask for copies of pay walled articles. You just have to go through the mortifying ordeal of expressing interest in an email.

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I'm feeling really thankful for my past self for typing up a messy draft thesis in March even tho it's not due until mid-September. My plan is to work on it now and get it done in a month by the end of September. Even though the draft is a hot mess, not referenced yet, in bullet points, the method are written informally not scientifically and the figures/graphs are unfinished... At least I have notes about what I want to write about, the layout is done and there are words on the page. I feel like procrastination is reduced as a first draft existing makes it easier to just start

I totally recommend writing up dissertation/thesis as you go and start early!