Scottish Mag 3 Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Whilst i am toying over a couple of ideas of what i shall be doing my dissertation on this year i was wondering who on here has had the joy of doing a dissertation? What "exciting" topic did you do it on? Did you work on it for the year or was it a last minute job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM4 0 Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 i'm gonna have to do one between now and FEB 2006. Can't imagine how... but it'll have to be done. At least I know what my subject will be: Regeneration in the North East. And knowing what I'm like it'll probably be a last minute job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikko 20 Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 I've got one to do this year. Find out the topic in the next month or so. Not looking forward to that. Counts for about 20% of my degree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 I've got one to do this year. Find out the topic in the next month or so. Not looking forward to that. Counts for about 20% of my degree 36195[/snapback] ditto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 8868 Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Whilst i am toying over a couple of ideas of what i shall be doing my dissertation on this year i was wondering who on here has had the joy of doing a dissertation? What "exciting" topic did you do it on? Did you work on it for the year or was it a last minute job? 36192[/snapback] Well, I am in the closing stages of my doctorate. My dissertation had the really exciting topic of "legal actions of dispossessed monasteries at the Imperial chamber court in the early 16th century". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 336 Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 The dissertation is the only bit I have left to do of my B.Sc. but I'm procrastinating like ferk over it. Because it's a nursing degree and specialising in Critical Care it'll probably be something very boring like The Prolonged Use of Mechanical Ventilation on the Unconscious Patient, or something equally as thrilling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 13980 Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 I managed to get away with a fairly lightweight dissertation looking at the portrayal of German-British relations in the serious German news media. The advantages of going to a joke uni... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 whatever it is start writing NOW - most people wander along and then realise they have a week to pull it all together = PANIC!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM4 0 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 whatever it is start writing NOW - most people wander along and then realise they have a week to pull it all together = PANIC!!! 36364[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 2929 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 The dissertation is the only bit I have left to do of my B.Sc. but I'm procrastinating like ferk over it. Because it's a nursing degree and specialising in Critical Care it'll probably be something very boring like The Prolonged Use of Mechanical Ventilation on the Unconscious Patient, or something equally as thrilling. 36284[/snapback] Could be worse Cath considering some of the jobs nurses are required to do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 I can't remember the exact title of my dissertation off the top of my head, but it was basically about online virtual tours set up by museums. Did the research at the end of my 2nd year, then did nowt, then a week of choosing the websites and evaluating them, then I wrote it in 4 days....the 4 days leading up to it being handed in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 336 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 The dissertation is the only bit I have left to do of my B.Sc. but I'm procrastinating like ferk over it. Because it's a nursing degree and specialising in Critical Care it'll probably be something very boring like The Prolonged Use of Mechanical Ventilation on the Unconscious Patient, or something equally as thrilling. 36284[/snapback] Could be worse Cath considering some of the jobs nurses are required to do! 36375[/snapback] You can't really write a 10,000 word dissertation on cleaning up poo though really. Thankfully it's not something I have to do often in my current job. Gone are the days when this nurse mops brows and cleans up shit - I do the slighly more technical side of nursing now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6287 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 whatever it is start writing NOW - most people wander along and then realise they have a week to pull it all together = PANIC!!! 36364[/snapback] I did the last week PANIC and ended up with a indvidual mark of 'first' for my dissertation! Some people work better under pressure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 whatever it is start writing NOW - most people wander along and then realise they have a week to pull it all together = PANIC!!! 36364[/snapback] I did the last week PANIC and ended up with a indvidual mark of 'first' for my dissertation! Some people work better under pressure! 36417[/snapback] and most f*** up.................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6287 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 whatever it is start writing NOW - most people wander along and then realise they have a week to pull it all together = PANIC!!! 36364[/snapback] I did the last week PANIC and ended up with a indvidual mark of 'first' for my dissertation! Some people work better under pressure! 36417[/snapback] and most f*** up.................... 36431[/snapback] In your experience perhaps.... In mine, the successful lot seem to be those who leave it to the last minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5889 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 did mine on how the miners strike played out in durham, took me 5 days and got a 2:1 so chuffed! cath, if you can wangle something about anxiety into it my mams nursing dissertation got a first, sure i could fwd it to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 13980 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 I did the last week PANIC and ended up with a indvidual mark of 'first' for my dissertation! Some people work better under pressure! 36417[/snapback] and most f*** up.................... 36431[/snapback] In your experience perhaps.... In mine, the successful lot seem to be those who leave it to the last minute. 36478[/snapback] I'll go with that... you learn a lot about your future working habits at uni really. Whenever I tried to do anything well before the deadline, the quality just wasn't up to scratch, and that still applies now in my shadowy life as a transamalator - I can't work properly without the adrenaline rush of time pressure and the threat of horrendous failure hanging over my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebob toonpants 3587 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 OK I win on this one. My degree ( at the esteemed LSE) was "Group and Interpersonal Psychology" and my thesis was titled "Football Hooliganism - Ritual Rhetoric or Reality" Uilising a methodology of interview and observation, or going to the match and talking to my mates as it was otherwise known, I managed to spend a year studying football crowds. Marvellous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34179 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 I didn't have to do a dissertation for my degree (Economics at Newcastle). Thank Christ too because I can think of nothing worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Ice cream and chocolate sauce for me, or just a coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM4 0 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 I did the last week PANIC and ended up with a indvidual mark of 'first' for my dissertation! Some people work better under pressure! 36417[/snapback] and most f*** up.................... 36431[/snapback] In your experience perhaps.... In mine, the successful lot seem to be those who leave it to the last minute. 36478[/snapback] I'll go with that... you learn a lot about your future working habits at uni really. Whenever I tried to do anything well before the deadline, the quality just wasn't up to scratch, and that still applies now in my shadowy life as a transamalator - I can't work properly without the adrenaline rush of time pressure and the threat of horrendous failure hanging over my head. 36539[/snapback] same here really ... I know myself too well now, and know that even if I think about doing it as soon as possible, it'll still be there waiting to be done 2 days before the deadline... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emperor_k 1 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 I know I have to do a dissertation this year. But that is all I know about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Attitudes toward smoking. The conclusion was that it's bad. It was a group thing and I did bugger all. I still have "works well in a group" on my CV though. And I still smoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 I did the last week PANIC and ended up with a indvidual mark of 'first' for my dissertation! Some people work better under pressure! 36417[/snapback] and most f*** up.................... 36431[/snapback] In your experience perhaps.... In mine, the successful lot seem to be those who leave it to the last minute. 36478[/snapback] I'll go with that... you learn a lot about your future working habits at uni really. Whenever I tried to do anything well before the deadline, the quality just wasn't up to scratch, and that still applies now in my shadowy life as a transamalator - I can't work properly without the adrenaline rush of time pressure and the threat of horrendous failure hanging over my head. 36539[/snapback] Agree. Work better as deadline looms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_NUFC 0 Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 I'm just starting my second year now, but I'm already beginning to think about it. Hopefully this year should make things a bit clearer. I'm hoping to know/decide what I'm going to do it on by the summer and start work on it then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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