My MA about development
4 weeks ago
crazy thing is that it is my third topic, third try to write anything but…, yhhh, can’t do this… i have an ideas, have conception, but no energy to write…
How to finish my M.A.
It made me 
"Painful. But over."
How I did it: Hey guys, My MA was not easy. It was a dense, difficult program; one for which I was woefully unprepared (mentally or educationally). The people were assholes, the profs were jackasses, I hated the city I was living in, and most of the reading material sucked.
But. I learned, a lot. I learned material that I wouldn't even have known was there. I learned how much I can deal with. I learned a new, huge city. I made some friends and many contacts. And I got those damn letters after my name.
The last month was awful - my last paper was incredibly overdue and I literally turned it in an hour before the grade cutoff - two months after it was due. Any later and I wouldn't have gotten the degree and had no way to make it up. I did it though, and I passed.
If you've started it and you're struggling, please my friends, please just do it. Do whatever you have to do to get it out of the way; eke out whatever you have to eke out; drag your ass to the finish line. Because I can't promise that doing that degree will be worth it overall, but once you've started, finishing it is worth it.
Best of luck.
Lessons & tips: Take a deep breath and take a step back. It royally stinks, but when you see it in perspective, it's so so small. You can do it!
Resources: Sheer willpower, desperation, and nagging from my mother and boyfriend.
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Killing me
9 months ago
At least it’s better this term.
I have to submit my two late papers, then make sure I get all my final papers submitted by the beginning of May and then I’m DONE.
Untitled
1 year ago
I’ve just finished my preliminary year in English literature studies, and now I’m on the 1st step of my thesis, majoring in American poetry. I’ve a year and 3 months to go before completing all the requirements of the M.A. degree. Well, it’s a very useful, rewarding experience, suitable for those who don’t break easily under pressure. To tell the truth, I couldn’t escape that, but it’s the bitter sweet, isn’t it?
Some more demands
1 year ago
Ok….... almost 6 months I wasn’t at the university. But you have to remember that I left just before the end of the first semester, and then was one month of vacation between the semesters. And the best, in the second semester there was a students’ strike for more than a month. So you can say: you really didn’t miss something.
But after I returned I know that I have:
1 – two works more to do for courses of my program
2 – I must do english exam, that offffff can determine if I’ll have another course, and now in english
3 – I must do course in Yahadut
4 – I didn’t send my theasis proposal to Noah. After the proposal, there is a commitee, and after it I must do the theasis…......... offff
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OMG I AM SO DONE
1 year ago
Last paper turned in, graduation today! I am very happy and relieved to have made it through. It has been really hard going to school while working full time, and cramming my degree into a year and a half has been hectic to say the least. On this side of it though it doesn’t seem like a half bad way to spend the time.
Yay!
down from 5 in 5 to 4 in 4
1 year ago
papers in weeks, that is. as much as i wish that i could get a jump on the next task, i think i am starting to come to grips with finishing one paper and then working on the next paper each week. it is still a struggle as i wish very much that i could somehow get everything done all at once. really, i need to remember that i will give out if there is to be an entire month of craziness, so i need to plan some down-time in there somewhere.
but we are getting closer!
close
1 year ago
i have passed my MA exam and completed all classes i need to take save the three i am finishing up this semester. i have about one month before my last paper is due.
as it gets down to the wire, i find myself getting less and less enjoyment out of class. the pressure of having 5 papers left to write is substantial, and i am desperately trying to find ways of de-stressing. at the same time, i know that i need to use this pressure to propel myself through the final stretch and make the best use of the time i have.
i hope that everything gets done satisfactorily. or better? please?
the final chapter is now completed
1 year ago
The time when the nightmare ends draws nigh :] I’ve just finished the last chapter. Now all I have to do is to look through what I’ve got and come up with some conclusions. And then I can call myself a proud M.A. in English Literature…
I don't know if I should give up
1 year ago
Hi,
I received another mark… this time for my first work on the physics. I got 90.
The BIG problem is my thesis. My head of department don’t like the way I ant to do the thesis. I don’t have much time…I must send my proposal before the flight, two and a half weeks from today!
