Every Feeling Maltese Students Have Before They Hand In Their Thesis
If you’ve ever come out of the end of writing a thesis you’ll know that it feels more than mildly bewildering. Even if so far in your life you’ve struggled to write so much as an eloquent Facebook post, you’re expected to essentially write a book. It’s crazy and it leaves you feeling destroyed and triumphant in equal measure.
Here’s what we’ve all experienced before thesis hand-in day at UoM.
1. Determination
It’s only 15,000 words – that’s like three normal assignments. Let’s do this.
2. Brain-block
This kind of block goes beyond just writing. You actually have lost the ability to form lucid thoughts.
3. Confidence-surge
You’ve written the first 200 words and everyone has told you that’s the “hardest part”. You are doing this.
4. Complete bewilderment
You repeat your own hypothesis to yourself a hundred times and it still makes zero sense in your own brain. #WhatAmIWritingAbout
5. Confidence collapse
You WhatsApp Sarah for some comfort. She’s already on her second chapter and is having a Spritz break with all your friends in Valletta.
6. Blame game
This is all [literally any person on the planet]’s fault. How the hell am I meant to write 15,000 words about one subject? That’s like THREE whole assignments.
7. Divine inspiration
Suddenly, out of nowhere, your body becomes a thinking, writing machine.
8. Complete system failure
You left all your footnotes until the end and have to spend the next week back in the Melitensia library.
BONUS: Overwhelming Pride
You’ve never done anything that’s more of a big deal, so Facebook deserves to know. #FeelingProud