I'm 27. I guess I took a 2 year break from here. But I guess I'm back because I'm bored and perhaps miss being part of an online community...or I'm just looking for a distraction because my husband works out of town a lot and I'm not digging this homework that I have to do for stats. And if you knew me before you'll be pleasantly surprised (or maybe not) that I'm mostly a nurse but sometimes a graduate student. I'm mostly from Calgary but I've been in Vancouver (again) since April of 2008. I watch too much television and have been working on my masters thesis a little too little. This is another distraction.
Love,
Michelle D.
p.s. If you want to be friends, it's entirely possible.
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rubella ballet
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cake smash ...
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hey ya: mine is bigger
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My ear: My Ear
Sometimes you just have to let things go
2009/11/20 00:03 Instead of letting them drag on and on forever. I understand that I gave up on my masters thesis a long time ago. So it does not surprise me that 10% of the literature review and the theory section are plagiarized. When I went into the meeting with my supervisor and the Dean of the faculty I was expecting the outcome to not be good. I'm not entirely sure what they expected me to say. For the past 4 years I've felt like I've been doing this on my own and today was no different. It's strange that I can be sitting in a meeting where two people that don't even know me are becoming irritated with me because I have no good explanation for why all these sections are directly copied from other works. This is happening to me, not them. I am the one that has to live with the fact that my negligence led to this; I am the one who ends up not getting the degree, not them. They are strangers.
It surprised me that I cried because I feel like I've let go. I can let go of spending the money and putting in the time. I was relieved when I told my mom about what happened at my defense and she told me "it's just a piece of paper". It is just a piece of paper. So I'm okay with knowing that out of this process there is no masters degree at the end of it. There will be other opportunities.
love,
Michelle D.
p.s. If you're in the same situation just know that you're not alone because right now I feel like i'm the only grad student that this has ever happened too but I know I'm not.
Pretty soon I'll be 28
2009/11/06 17:59 It's true.
H1N1
2009/11/05 12:13 Seriously, if you have asthma, diabetes, heart disease, are pregnant, take care of children 0-6 months, are a health care professional etc. etc. go get vaccinated. And if you are presenting symptoms, stay home, don't go out exposing the rest of the world. H1N1 is the dominant strain of flu this year, 90% of people that have flu have H1N1.
love,
Michelle D.
Car Accident
2009/11/03 14:31 I hate driving in this city. All the worst drivers in the world must be concentrated in the Vancouver area.
