

It's Alive! But...
I'm tired. #thesis


PAX Quest--because it's dangerous to go alone
As the cliche goes: "It's dangerous to go alone..." So I took Jonathan Padua and Thomas May III with me, semi-force-recruited into my...
Daily Insights
1) Hardship is necessary. One never gets used to it, despite its unbeatable consistency in our lives. 2) Perspective is a hard-fought...
"To those who can hear me I say, 'Do not despair'"
I needed this. From Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" (1940): "You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the...


Rediscovering old, pertinent documents
In combing through my files, I came across a paper I read early on in my Master's candidacy that I remember not agreeing with very much...


The Saddest Thing
In revising a section of my thesis, I came across this, one of the saddest things I have ever found: =========================== "I'm now...
What's a thesis?
A thesis is a long document. With me being stuck at the end of it, I found that it was somewhat easy for me to forget why I was even...
One of the best guitarists I know
Lately my motivation and morale has been down because sometimes the process of writing a thesis can seem like trying to show certain...
The image of research
This is how lab meetings and presentations go in my nightmares. Though, on the other hand, the movie Ghostbusters also started with Ray,...


Bought a Bass Guitar
Well, yesterday I talked about buying myself something nice online for myself for no logical reason. Then at night I jammed on a borrowed...


















