writing my dissertation and getting that masters degree 🪄

an affirmation to myself 🤎

having to do a research paper on my own from scratch has been my biggest challenge this summer. A nightmare even. I lost count of how many days in a row I dragged myself to the library, only to sit there for hours unable to get myself together to write a sentence. I would return home and feel so guilty for not having any progress, doubt my abilities and spiral down into a miserable hopeless state. I want to get away from that feeling so much.

I had 3 months in the summer to do my masters dissertation. I spent the first month thinking about the topic, only to find my proposal infeasible and I had to change it. I spent the second month gathering myself, and weakly attempted to write as I had 0 idea of what I was supposed to do. I felt guilty for not contacting my supervisor for help, but at the same time I didn’t have any progress to show her. At last I sent her a draft so horrible I didn’t even want to look at it for a week.

But she didn’t think it was horrible. Maybe I just needed some pointers to guide me towards the right direction. Maybe I wasn’t incapable after all. I felt more confident about the research and writing after that.

It’s 3 weeks to the submission deadline. So here I am, really, really, trying my best, to get over the bad days and give my best work, a little progress each day 🕊

I’m so close to the finish line, I can do this! 💌

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