My friend Peter actually came up with that title, but it so perfectly sums up my current state of affairs that I had to swipe it. Thanks, Peter. At 9:31 AM this morning I received the email from my THESIS advisor. The document has been accepted. I am now officially graduating. WOO-HOO!
All right, I’ll admit it. I’m in a little bit of trouble here. My THESIS is due on Friday. I’m meant to be doing final revisions to the paper – and I have been doing revisions, but I’m concerned that I might not be doing enough revisions, or the right revisions. The defense went well, […]
I’m knee-deep in reworking Section III of my thesis this weekend, wherein I’m trying to demonstrate the actual value of canon when it comes to transmedia storytelling. My case study of choice? The new ‘season 8’ of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, told in comics form by Whedon himself. Why? Simple. When Whedon’s Fray, a comic […]
Apologies for not posting this yesterday, but I have now (more or less) successfully defended my Master’s THESIS at MIT. I still need to do some last-minute revisions, but it looks like I’m going to graduate! The defense was both a lot of fun and kind of awkward, since I wasn’t wholly certain what the […]
My THESIS defense is this afternoon from 1-3. That means that as I write this, I have approximately two hours and forty-five minutes in which to shower up, format a title page for people to sign, get something for lunch and hustle my butt in to campus. That translates into right around 9,900 seconds. The […]
It’s official. I have hit The Wall. Luckily, I hit the wall after I sent a draft to my thesis committee early this afternoon, and after Henry sent me a nice note saying that the latest draft I’d sent him was “SIGNIFICANTLY and SUBTANTIALLY improved” (emphasis his). Thank you Jesus. I may have a chance […]
The last time I posted a ‘score’ (read: wordcount) about my THESIS, it was up to 28,712. This was before my advisor laid into it. Now, less than a week later, I’ve sliced out big, huge chunks of text and added in even bigger chunks, grafted in an all-new framework, including six subclasses of hermeneutic […]
I don’t think anyone has written extensively yet about the great boon that high-def DVD could be to academic media studies. I’m currently re-(re-re-re-re-re-)watching Labyrinth and trying to make out exactly what it says on the clippings in the notebook in Sarah’s room. Not the headlines, mind you, the text. If I had this in […]
That’s it, it’s official – my THESIS is far and away the nerdiest thing I’ve ever written. My most recent draft includes Barthes, Genette, Lévy, Umberto Eco, Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, Indiana Jones, Hellboy, Neil Gaiman, the Muppets, Stephen King, Batman, Superman, Stargate, Final Fantasy, Star Wars, and, as of this morning, the Battle […]
I’m in a very weird place with my THESIS. On Thursday night I got 3,000 words’ worth of feedback from my thesis committee chair that pretty much eviscerated most of what I’d given him – or at least that’s how it felt. Looking back on it now, it wasn’t only not that bad, but it […]
