The pain in the ass is over.

Thesis has been one of those things that older people would threaten me when I was about to enter college. They would tell me stories about their own experiences about how they had so much cramming to do and how pressured they were and how much sleep they got during those times. I might say it was fucking TERRIBLE and it scared the shit out of me.

Now that my own thesis is over and done with, I guess it was both preposterous and fun at the same time.

I mean, from the very beginning, we already had a hard time choosing which thesis topic we liked to center on. We wanted something interesting and new and most of all, we wanted something that we really like. Hence, we chose the field of music. To make the long story short, it was forever until we finally got to the bottom of our thesis topic.

...AND THEN WE HAD TO MAKE CHAPTERS ONE THROUGH FIVE.

THAT was difficult.

Soc and I would either do our thesis together in LaPis or at the same time at home. Yes people, we actually survived not having overnights in each other's house. I guess we knew deep inside that we can NEVER do anything inside my house (or hers) in the middle of the night except LAUGH, TALK and yes, SLEEP.

But I guess everything was ALL worth it. every word, every sentence, every paragraph. Every fucking one and a half hours interview that we transcribed. Every edit, every paraphrase, every deleted part, every single revision. Every single thing was all worth it.

Most especially when we saw the great transformation of our drafts to our BABY over here:



Isn't that beautiful or what? We never really expected that our thesis would be this thick. We just made it a point to do whatever our mentor and our (damn you!) reader told us to do.

Even though I felt good about that we already finished thesis and defense, I just can't help dissing our reader. SHE SUCKS BIG TIME! During defense, she was all grouchy at us. She kept on interrupting our powerpoint presentation and making rather pesky comments about why we did this or that. Goes to show that everything we did that she questioned was OKAY. Other groups has the same thing (e.g. the NEW conceptual framework on Chapter 4) and their readers were okay with it. Bwisit siya. We deserve a higher grade! gaddeeeemiiit. I wanted to die when I found out about it. Sayang lang e, we could've gotten our grades up.
Hambalos ko sa kanya tong hardbound e.

I mean literally, we have like TONS of HAGMAN citations in our revlit. He's the best. :D I'm actually finding his picture right now on the internet to see how he looks like. I haven't had much of the time before to look for him, but I can now.

Okay, wala siyang picture. haha. :p

3. The USB and journal articles are your BESTFRIENDS.

4. Sense of humor makes everything in order. It actually helps. We don't get pressured at all..well, not all of the time. :)

5. For me, Y breaks gives me an added boost. :p