I can almost taste the sweet tang of freedom

[sqbr]

My supervisor emailed me last night, and by 8am I'd done everything she asked. More importantly, she basically said "Do as many of these as you can,. but really just hand it in". Woot! So I am so handing it in tomorrow. I'd hand it in today if it wasn't for stupid uni being closed on Sundays (damn you uni!)

Anyway, I had nothing to do and was (am) all hyped up on a third of a cup of tea (mmm..tea. I love tea, I wish I could drink it more often) so sorted through the folders of papers and drafts I've accumulated over the past 6.5 years (counting honours) resulting in...THE PILE:




It'd be a lot bigger but I had periodic cleanups. So..anyone know if Terracon has fireplaces? I feel like burning some drafts >:D

The stuff I'm keeping (about half of which is notes from relevant 3rd/4th yr units) is the pile of coloured folders behind, plus the shoebox of misc unsorted papers.

Comments

[mpfl.livejournal.com]

Don't burn it! If you become a Nobel Laureate or something one day, I bet some library or another would love to have all of your PhD thesis notes.

[alias_sqbr]

Don't worry, these are mostly stuff like 15 very-slightly-different drafts of this big paper I helped write or 2001 M131 assignment solutions. I've kept all the notes on stuff that didn't make it into the thesis unless they were so incoherently scrawled I couldn't tell what they meant :)

Also, the chances of me becoming a nobel laureate are pretty small. The chances of one of my supervisors going "I've decided to look into that stuff you didn't end up pursuing, can I have a look at your notes?", on the other hand, are quite high, since it happened twice during the course of my phd.