I am back to my usual seat in the library, where I sat majority of last year when completing my thesis for my undergrad. I am swapping between here and the lab in Arus de Brun where I am working with three Vietnamese students who came to Ireland as part of the VIBE program. We are working together to see if any of our results are significant enough to produce a publishable paper. My blood is 80% coffee and the weather at home hasn’t been great so its perfect thesis writing settings. I’m missing the university life in Vietnam which often consisted of breaks with my colleagues Cian and Chris to drink smoothies and sugar cane juice in the sun but I feel like I’m finally settling back into life in Galway.
When I submitted my thesis last year I promised myself that I’d never do that again but here I am drafting another thesis, this time for a masters degree. One thing I learned last year was don’t leave everything to the last minute so I’ve been consistently working away at all the different parts of my thesis. Working with the Vietnamese students to draft a paper has helped greatly and there are lots of great ideas floating around, it’s just a matter of getting all these ideas down on into a word doc to see what angle we will take. With only a month to until my thesis is due its heads down and get typing and hopefully I will have my draft results by next week.