master's paper saga... part 2

(from the jojos archive)

Before I launch into this, let me say that its almost done. Really. Today or tomorrow I'll send it off to get the formatting checked by the official formatting police & then that's it. Whew.... but not without some stress:

I sent my advisor a full draft a couple weeks ago. He had already told me in person that he liked the first half and things were looking really good. In so many words, he said to just finish it. No real comments, nothing to add, and he even said I could delete one piece of analysis that was taking too long. Great! So, I sent the full draft along and spent the last couple weeks eagerly awaiting his comments.

I still hadn't heard anything yesterday, and sent him an email saying something like "hey Bob... its 10 days until the final version is due... what's the deal? did you get my draft?" Well, apparently he had, and he had sent me comments about a week and a half ago.... to an email account I haven't checked in my entire 2+ years at SILS! I logged into that account for the first time last night and there were 6 messages, all from my advisor. Comments on the first draft, comments on the second draft, urgent messages from last semester asking me where my master's paper was...

Uggh... Arrrgh... I couldn't believe it. Soooooo frustrating. I must have sent him 50 emails over the past couple years, and NONE were from that address. Did he not find it suspicious that I hadn't responded?

Well, no matter. A few more gray hairs, and I'm on my way. The paper is almost done and I will graduate in a few weeks.

Lesson learned: if you have an email address, either check it, or set it up to forward your mail to one you do check. I logged into my assigned email account at CMU for the second time ever, and what did I find? 1361 messages, all hot stock picks & cheap Rolexes.

UPDATE: Its done! Whoo hoo! I just turned in my master's paper! You can download and read the master's paper here. My only request is that you DON'T point out any grammatical, spelling, or any other type of error. (let me know if that link doesn't work.)