Honors Thesis Colloquium

Hi everyone,

Sorry, this post may sound completely abnormal but I just needed to vent my frustrations on the writing part of the thesis.

As I sat down to write my thesis for the upcoming deadline 2 weeks ago, I just didn’t realize how time consuming it could be. First, I guess I should clarify that while I have been working on and off the thesis since semester started, the past couple of weeks has really been the period that I have done some what I consider my REAL, concrete work. But now that I am in the midst of writing the paper (even as I write this post) I think I have seriously underestimated the time it takes to write the paper. I should have been forewarned by the book we have been using in class but for some reason I just did not see it coming. I have been promising myself that I’ll be done with a certain section of my paper for the past 2-3 days and guess what? I am still working on that same section, not because I did not work on it for the past couple of days but because there is just SO much information I have collected. I did not notice how much data I had piled on the various segments of the paper. I suppose I should be grateful that I have all this great information, which I am but its making writing the paper very difficult. Right now I have such a jumbled mess inside my brain. I know the points I need to make but just writing it all down on paper/computer is taking forever and I am getting very impatient and frustrated. All these different sub-topics are pulling me in different directions while I hasten to get all my ideas down before I lose track of them in my mind. This process is making me want to scream in frustration!!!!! 

I think I should stop there and get back to the paper.

By the way, good luck with your drafts!

Thanks-

Nandini

I wrote an article about Superheroes as a kind of brainstorm for my superhero section. I thought you guys might be interested.

http://thejessejack.blogspot.com/2009/03/caped-critiquer-my-analysis-of-american.html

or on the Brooklyn College Excelsior Website:

http://tinyurl.com/cplcyv

- Jesse

Hi everyone, as you know, the Surveillance Societies: What Price Security Conference that Dean Tomasch and I are organizing will take place April 24-26.  We will have 50 or so panelists over the course of the three days and additional folks attending sessions, and need help with steering them around.   So this note is to see if you are willing and able to do this for any (or all!) of the days.   Volunteering will also allow you to attend parts of the Conference that you are interested in .  Here is the website for your information–and of course, there would be no payment for you.

Here is an article on an honors student at Rutgers who is researching apocalypse in comics, FYI.  

It would be worth contacting him.

http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2009-03-02.9289810626/article.2009-03-04.0072966723/article_page_view

Hi Jesse, how was it?  Worth seeing?

Uh oh, someone may beat me to the punch and created my dream course:

http://www2.colum.edu/course_descriptions/52-2725J.html

Oh well…

- Jesse

Hey all,

I thought you might all apprecaite this.

http://graphjam.com/2009/03/01/song-chart-memes-spam-use/

I agree that this is pretty much the only use for spam.

- Jesse