He wrote back last night: "Damn, you are fast. I can't keep up with you."
This is fast? I feel like it's been dragging on and on.
But I'll take the compliment!
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Damn, I'm fast! (?)
With the Introductory chapter completed, I decided to resend it attached to the already-completed Chapters 3 and 4 (methodology and results, respectively) to Dr. Z for his review.
He wrote back last night: "Damn, you are fast. I can't keep up with you."
This is fast? I feel like it's been dragging on and on.
But I'll take the compliment!
He wrote back last night: "Damn, you are fast. I can't keep up with you."
This is fast? I feel like it's been dragging on and on.
But I'll take the compliment!
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Above Average
Last night, I finally finished the introduction that made me happy. That version was the SEVENTEENTH I had written.
An article that Dr. S gave me regarding "Setting the Hook," or writing the introduction to the dissertation, states that on average, award-winning academic journal authors rewrite their introductions ten times.
I guess you could say that I've always been "above average."
(Any wonder why I'm not finished yet?)
An article that Dr. S gave me regarding "Setting the Hook," or writing the introduction to the dissertation, states that on average, award-winning academic journal authors rewrite their introductions ten times.
I guess you could say that I've always been "above average."
(Any wonder why I'm not finished yet?)
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Risk! Risk is our business!
Could it be that, after 80,000 words on risk and risk management, the simple yet overly dramatic words of Captain Kirk in Star Trek say it all?
"They used to say if man could fly, he'd have wings, but he did fly. He discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to Mars and then to the nearest star? That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great grandfather used to. I'm in command. I could order this, but I'm not because Doctor McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this, but I must point out that the possibilities - the potential for knowledge and advancement - is equally great. Risk! Risk is our business. That's what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her. You may dissent without prejudice. Do I hear a negative vote?"
"They used to say if man could fly, he'd have wings, but he did fly. He discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to Mars and then to the nearest star? That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great grandfather used to. I'm in command. I could order this, but I'm not because Doctor McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this, but I must point out that the possibilities - the potential for knowledge and advancement - is equally great. Risk! Risk is our business. That's what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her. You may dissent without prejudice. Do I hear a negative vote?"
Captain James Tiberius Kirk
Starship Enterprise
Stardate 4768.3
Link: Risk! Risk is our business.
(or does it reflect that in efforts to overcome the boredom of writing a literature review, one becomes a trekkie?)
(or does it reflect that in efforts to overcome the boredom of writing a literature review, one becomes a trekkie?)
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