Before the year started, I wrote in my journal that one of my goals this year is to finish my Master’s Degree. I started with my studies last 2005. This is my third year and just the right time to complete all my requirements. On the average, they said that it takes 2-3 years to complete a masters degree.
I felt excited to embark on this challenge. It’s really mind draining since every statement, every data, every findings would be scrutinized. I have to be an expert on my chosen topic. I have to be confident that I know more than my panelists and they won’t find a single doubt with my academic study.
I started my topic without any concrete idea about it. I started from a blank slate. After six months of reading the literature, I’m finally confident that I know what I am doing. Well, half of it. I have the draft of the first 3 Chapters done. But my adviser told me to revised all of Chapter 2. I’m starting to complete the codes in Matlab. I starting to visualize the circuit in VHDL.
Half way there. I still need to finalize my drafts, complete chapter 4 (Design Specifications or Methodologies), complete and optimize the codes, defend the thesis proposal. I have to finish all this by the last week of June. All these plus doing projects at work and in church. This is one big ride of my life.
I can’t afford to waste time. I lessen watching TV but I can’t help to take a glimpse at the lastest news and Pinoy Big Brother. I am watch Game 1 of the NBA finals right now. I don’t stay long at the malls like I used to. I sleep a bit later than before. I look like a geek reading technical papers while on the bus. I look like a mad scientist talking to myself while walking in public trying to internalize the lastest information I read.
Everything is in full gears. I hope I can finish this before the year ends. So far, everything is according to plan. This is one thing I feel good while doing it and one of the few things that is making sense in my life for now. I holding on to it.
Hopefully tonight I would complete the codes and post it in my blog to share with others who might be doing a similar research.
