thesis memes that sum up my life

The post I wanted to publish today just isn't ready, so I decided to literally paint my lovely audience a picture of what life gestating a thesis looks/feels like. Since we are a culture of memes, I thought, "Hey, I'll relate to the people in a way that they can understand." Seriously though, grad school has taught me how to speak a new language of necessarily complicated words, so I'm dumb-ing it down for myself. There will be personal stories to support each meme, and each meme was found by simply typing in "thesis memes" into google.

Every day I'm thesis-ing, totally true. I have eaten, slept, breathed, and cried my thesis every day since August 2015. We're going on six months now!

People are always asking me about my topic, and I feel like my answer just isn't up to par. Honestly, it's a mouthful to talk about the relevancy of cooking classes being taught in the district at the 7th grade level and the experiences had by the students and teachers.

This is my relationship with my thesis advisor; we met at the start of last semester. I can't really imagine anyone really wanting to read my thesis other than my trio of advisors, but I certainly wouldn't mind giving people the opportunity.

I'd actually love to be writing right now. I'm in the middle of my fieldwork, gathering the data I will be writing about for this last half of the thesis. Last semester though, this meme summed up a good solid month of my life.

This is a daily struggle. Some days I love my project, and some days it is the bane of my existence. I often question if this stack of documents has developed a mind of it's own, turned into a teenager, and decided to hate its originator. Although at this point, I might just be hallucinating.

This semester is all about the deadlines. I had to make a schedule so detailed that it puts my life plan lists to shame (those of you who know me will wonder how that's even possible!). 

I have a deadline for everything! 

I believe the term we use in my class is called "unpacking;" we have to set the stage, and then we have to address the "so what?" It makes perfect sense in my head when I write it, but I forget that not everyone is an 'expert' on this subject like I have tried to become.

I'm totally guilty of this. 

And I'm very much aware of my writing limitations. 

Now.

;)