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veen  ·  2318 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 22, 2017

    It's not the final document, but a 90%-done document that determines whether you can graduate or whether you need to put more work into it. That meeting is next week

It went well! My committee thought that the core of my thesis is incredibly good but that I really need to streamline the shit out of my thesis. My goal was to strive for comprehensiveness, but they argued that it is much better to have a concise main story and leave the comprehensive details for the appendices because I was boring them to tears. Fair enough - I'm rewriting most of it anyways because I'm porting it all to LaTeX. I found a neat thesis template that, after some fiddling around, checks all the boxes.

The one downside is that I won't be graduating December 21st like I had planned because one of my thesis councilors will leave the country a few days before that. The next available date is halfway through January, which means that I didn't achieve my goal of graduating this calendar year. A bit of a bummer, but also a blessing in disguise because it gives me the breathing space to polish and perfect my thesis. Like, it gives me the time to have my thesis printed as a softcover 7x10.5" book, circulation of ~8. Partly because it'll make a splash, but mostly because it is cool af. (Especially because LaTeX allows me to format everything in Garamond beautifully.)

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After some more job conversations I think I finally have a great answer to the age-old "so what do you want to do" question. It's a long answer, but the short version is a crossover between business development & innovation, data science, and urban planning. The great thing is that I can do that at all three companies that I'm in serious talk with. Tomorrow I'm gonna discuss details with my so-far-favorite. (I count my blessings that it's a close race though!)

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Aldi and Lidl are know for temporarily selling random, cheap stuff in between the rest of the groceries. I found a 10-hole harmonica for like €4. I couldn't resist its sillyness. So if life ever blows I can blow that.

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edit: I forgot to mention that that Punch Brothers album I posted in the music thread is really growing on me. It's eccentric and creative and I love it.





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