Friday, June 19, 2009

day2 - directory

almost forgot that i have to post today. one of the reasons for that might be because of the amount of work i accomplished today ..... as it is tending towards zero :P.

the closest i came to work on the thesis was to consider creating a directory. typed in mkdir 3-4 times but cntrl-c'ed on all occasions since i couldn't come up with a name for the new directory. 'thesis' seemed to bland and ordinary.

oh yeah, the other thing i did manage to do is request a friend (colleague!), who is about to submit his thesis (he had started his phd 3 months before i did), to send his first chapter. yeah, the 'introduction'. it is of course the most difficult chapter to write and the most important as well (dont expect many, if any, readers apart from the supervisors and examiners to read beyond this chapter :P). looking at his introduction will also give me an idea of the protocols to be followed, especially the way Nr would prefer it. these will include how to list the publications, how to list the claims of the thesis and so on...

8 comments:

Nb said...

Can you stop using colon P's please. Grow up already. You are going to be a Doctor now, albeit a fake one.

Dilip said...

Hey don't stop using colon P's :P

Vandana said...

just name the directory "thesis" and think about using "mv" later :P

agreed..."intro" and "conclusions" are the most difficult chapters to write.

mythalez said...

@Nb, let us just be thankful that i dont use ":P"s while writing technical stuff :P. btw, wonder wat Nb stands for

@dilip, ofcourse i wont! I cant!

@vandu, followed ur advice .. surprisingly :P though named it "TheSis"

skp said...

The crapYness of your posts is directly proportional to the action you get on ur blog !

sharath said...

and I thought you had half your thesis ready.. :O

Vandana said...

interesting directory name :)

thread said...

@skp: wat kinda 'action' ?