I may already have a mentor should I do a thesis! During our break today, I spoke to Dr. O about my ideas on different service delivery models and treatment efficacy, and she seemed pretty intrigued. I did warn her, however, on how I somehow flew through my undergrad and post-bacc thesis- & research-free (which, at a research institution like UW, 499 is almost a rite of passage) and of certain anxieties I had as a result, but she reassured me that we'll be discussing thesis logistics in our seminar and to come talk to her when I've signed up. Granted, that doesn't happen til spring quarter, but I've kinda been thinking about this for a year now, and I'm both excited and scared to jump into a big research project like this... but how cool would it be to have something published?!
BUT I mustn't jump to conclusions. I fear that I'm beginning to romanticize this idea, which I often do. Hell, as soon as I got knit & purl down, one of my first projects was the
Bird's Nest Shawl from Cheryl Oberle. Needless to say, that project haunted me. In fact, it
still haunts me! Lord knows how many times I've started it, frogged it, restarted it for one reason or another, decided I didn't like my adjustments, and frogged it again. Something tells me that I can't treat my thesis like my knitting.
It's coming slowly, but surely. With school having started, I'm going at about the rate of one tentacle a day, so if this is a precursor of the next couple of years, I think I can reasonably aim for completing 1 project a month. Even that may be a little ambitious, so realistically, let's aim for 1 project every 2 months.
