I turned in my senior thesis on Wednesday this week. All that’s left is an oral defense, in early May, and then I can actually graduate, hopefully with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with honors, Summa Cum Laude. That’s the plan.
For fun(?), I thought I’d share some of the numbers related to the thesis process:
- Final page length: 103
- Word count: 20,758
- Minutes spent editing (according to Word): 6,284
- References: 56
- Completed surveys: 447
- Campuses surveyed: 2
- Days until thesis was due when I began collecting data: 8
- Days until thesis was due when I began analyzing data: 2
- Statistical analyses in final thesis: 5
- Hours spent learning statistical analysis before April 8: 0
- Time went to bed on night before due date: 4am
- Hours spent fighting with Microsoft Word to make thesis print correctly: 3
- Turned thesis in at: 3:30pm, April 10th, 2013
- Volume of beer consumed after turning in thesis: [redacted]
It feels good to have a life back.
3 hours formatting? Someone wishes he had used LaTeX.