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A boost right about when I needed it, from my advisor this morning.
Yesterday afternoon she asked to see my draft of my conference paper so far. All I had done was about four pages, with placeholders for eleven figures, describing the new tool/program I'm using. I'd gotten nothing in the results section, and even what I had done in the whole paper was just a first-pass brain dump.
This morning we talked for a few minutes about what I should focus on for "results", given that my paper is more about the tool than any specific theory.
But before that she said the following:
"You're writing is just... I have to thank you. After all the editing I've been doing from student papers lately, just... thank you. I'm still bleeding on it with edits, but more for scientific specifics than writing corrections. I'm just so relieved."
W00t! I'd say I'll be insufferably pleased with myself for a while, but I don't have the time. Today and Sunday I need to get something to talk about as results. And I know I have to evolve/shift my writing style to more hard science presentation than I've been used to doing, and that's coming with practice, but it's just nice to hear what she said, especially when I've been so frustrated over this frackking program lately.
Yesterday afternoon she asked to see my draft of my conference paper so far. All I had done was about four pages, with placeholders for eleven figures, describing the new tool/program I'm using. I'd gotten nothing in the results section, and even what I had done in the whole paper was just a first-pass brain dump.
This morning we talked for a few minutes about what I should focus on for "results", given that my paper is more about the tool than any specific theory.
But before that she said the following:
"You're writing is just... I have to thank you. After all the editing I've been doing from student papers lately, just... thank you. I'm still bleeding on it with edits, but more for scientific specifics than writing corrections. I'm just so relieved."
W00t! I'd say I'll be insufferably pleased with myself for a while, but I don't have the time. Today and Sunday I need to get something to talk about as results. And I know I have to evolve/shift my writing style to more hard science presentation than I've been used to doing, and that's coming with practice, but it's just nice to hear what she said, especially when I've been so frustrated over this frackking program lately.
