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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
The Big One
I am starting tonight on my first research paper for graduate school (see this post), or I should say its abstract, outline, and bibliography. I have a stack of journal articles, book reviews, and library volumes surrounding my laptop and I must say, it's the greatest feeling in the world. It's only overwhelming in the sense that I want to read every word there is to read about Ancient Maya agriculture and ancestral land use, but there are only so many hours in the day. The hard part is going to be keeping each paper under the recommended ten to fifteen page limit (remember when a 10-page paper was daunting?). I'm ready to sink my teeth into the three papers this semester but not before the realization that I really am a very, very small fish just starting out in a very large ocean.
If I don't get sidetracked reading entire articles, by the end of the night I will have a 100-word abstract for the Chiefdoms edition of my research.
A photo of aforementioned workspace, taken with my new camera phone:
Posted by Will at October 11, 2005 08:50 PM in Graduate School