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I'm convinced that making masters students write a thesis is actually part of an elaborate hazing ritual
A very wise senior professor said to me (when I was having trouble in his course): "Don't worry. You are an undergraduate. You know nothing. When you are a graduate student, you will learn one thing - your thesis. After that, you start to learn Mathematics."
This subject is close to home for me; my aunt is a librarian. <a href="https://prabook.com/web/johanne_h.fairs.grewell/529851" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://prabook.com/web/johanne_h.fairs.grewell/529851</a> And yes, I did buy her the T-shirt. :)
Library and information science just isn't all that hard, because there just isn't very much to it. The two big questions are what terms people are going to look information up under and how people will phrase requests for information, and no one can answer them. The big problem is to teach people how to tell reliable from unreliable information sources, and it turns out that most people don't want to do that because it's hard. That leaves you with a set of techniques for not fucking it up too bad this time, and it's not a very big set. Most schools make you do a thesis-sized research project at the end though, just so you will know that feeling of drowning alone in the middle of the ocean and have some sympathy for people who show up at the reference desk feeling like that. That's probably why Claire has the rictus smile.
To disagree (very slightly): learning taxonomies and indexing can eat your soul and pull you into the depths and leave you gasping and disoriented 12 hours later in a cubicle. But that's less studying and more "here's a set of objects, organize and interconnect them."
Feet in the air!
My Nephew just got through this $#!t with his Pharma Boards. Now he has to wait three months for the results :/
Good luck to your nephew!!
Believe it or Don't, Pintsize IS helping... by sitting and being quiet!
Ah, the "Nope, I'm fine, I don't want to be a burden despite the fact I'M SCREAMING INSIDE!" behavior of someone with anxiety and confidence issues/depression. Claire, he loves you. Talk to him.
Aww, I missed those two ^^
Claire is either going to explode, break down, or set fire to a bunch of things. Either way, she really should talk to someone about things...
Uh oh...
I'm sure that Claire WISHES she could just go all 'Mary Poppins' with her assessments but something tells me that reality is somewhat different!
This is fine
Ruh-roh!
Flipping all the shit.... and pintsize
Poor Claire... the life of a grad student is super stressful
So stressful
Marten's all fancy, what's the occasion?
With sleeves rolled up, so not TOO fancy...
Pintsize looks like he's trying to escape the blast zone. She's long ago established that she can be terrifying to him, and this seems to be unusual behaviour for her. So it's only natural that he would be afraid of what might happen next.
I remember people like this from college. I probably should have been one of them.