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The Big D
The dissertation does not make these pages very often. However, once in a while even it has to make an appearance. In fact, it has been somewhat like the gian elephant in the room throughout this entire blog: my most major project, yet rarely directly mentioned. It has not yet come to a standstill. It does need occasional inspirational quotes, however:
Substituting "page" for "day" in the above would not make it less helpful where dissertators are concerned.
Tags: dissertation, quotes
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Substituting "page" for "day" in the above would not make it less helpful where dissertators are concerned.
Tags: dissertation, quotes
Posted 10 December 2007 at 19:52.
A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.
