Dissertations take all year my arse!
My final year of uni beckoned, I get my plan ready for the most kick arse dissertation ever, get everything done in the holidays research wise, then write it at leisure.

Did this happen? Did it hell. I managed a bit of data collection two weeks before hand in date, thhhheeennnn....

19 hours before deadline, pilled up on ProPlus, lots of orange juice and biscuits.. I started writing it.

19 hours later it was handed in, my zoomy fast typing skills garnering 40 pages, 8500 words, complete with maps, diagrams and as much analysis as possible following the rather crappy data collection, it was done.

I failed. Unsurprisingly.

So with my whole degree resting on the rewrite, I thought I had better get on with making some major revisions and spending a lot of time on it.


14 hours to hand in, I sat down and started writing... binned half the original analysis, spent half the time actually reading some of the subject matter, realised practically everything I said initially was bollocks, rewrote it. Handed it in. Passed.

You can follow my progress of that March on my youtube (search for 24 hour dissertation), which was my number one procrastination tool. I CAN AVOID DOING WORK BY JUST TALKING ABOUT IT. YEAH!

Yeah.
( MCQ Cartoons n' shit: bagowank.com, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 20:41, 2 replies)

<nelson>Ha ha!</nelson>
I got away with not doing a dissertation... something to do with the complicated module requirements on my course. My course allowed me to choose basically what modules I wanted, and my taught modules did not have a dissertation as a co-requisite. Which is good, I prefer exams.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Thu 13 Nov 2008, 21:29, closed)

Aah Pro Plus
Tis vital in my every day life
(The Ear-Trumpet Addicting is NOT a word., Sun 16 Nov 2008, 14:30, closed)