At 9:45 this morning...

I sent the FINAL draft of my dissertation to my thesis director!!!!!!! 150 pages!!!

I am SO happy and SO relieved!!!



I think I will have a great weekend!!!!!!

Random Picture!

This was back in June 2007, when I received my bachelor degree diploma!

If everything goes well, I should be back there next June to get my master degree diploma!

Can't wait!!!

Back to Reality!

I'm back to Québec city! The bus ride was sooooo long (almost 11.5 hours!) and I was exhausted but I'm here now! I'm glad to be in my own things but I already miss B!

Today I have a lot of things to get done: unpacking my suitcase, cleaning, doing laundry and grocery shopping, going to the pharmacy, reading some stuff for my work which begins tomorrow! ( I'll still be marking French dissertations, but this time, it will be more difficult exams and it will a 2 whole months employment contract! That's good for me!)

College also started yesterday but since I have no class this semester (only working on my thesis from home on the weekend), I don't get to go to the campus! I save a lot of transportation time by doing that!

Let's start the day now! 

I will be back later with 2 posts on 2 awards I received!

Happy Tuesday everyone!

I like books but...

Here's the work I have to accomplish today:

I have to read those 7 books for my research project... Well, I read fast, but I actually don't have to read all the chapters in the books, but most of it...It is now 11h30am, I'm at my second cup of coffee today and I have read 3 books! I just have to keep up the good work!!! I can do it!!!

Student life

www.ulaval.ca

 For the past 6 years, I've been in college. 6 years! That's a lot of time! In 6 years: 4 different appartments, 3 different roomates. A long distance relationship. Learning to be away from home, to cook, to live on my own.

A lot of stress, but a lot of fun time too! People who say that  the student's years are the best of their lives are absolutely right: I love being a student, I love this life! But I know there is an end to this, it has to! (Because money is an issue in our world!!!)

A Little Recapitulation

I graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor Degree in French Canadian Literature. (Université Laval) I'm actually pursuing a Master Degree in Literature. That's a lot of work. I had to take 30 credits (5 classes of 6 credits each). The classes were hard and I had a lot of written work to submit, a lot of deadlines. I took those classes for the 2 first years of my master's.

Since last year, I'm done with those classes and I have to get my thesis done! My thesis is my final dissertation. My subject is not that hard, but a lot of things need to be developed.  For this dissertation, I have read maybe like 100 references books (about literary theories)!!! I had to make a detailed draft and it took me a long time to get those readings and that draft done!

In one year, I have written about 70 pages (2 chapters out of 3). I still have to write Chapter 3 (about 35 pages), Introduction (8-10 pages) and Conclusion (8-10 pages), made some corrections to Chapters 1 and 2, be evaluated by 3 eminent teachers and I will be done! It's a stressful time for me, because I have to get all that done before Christmas, I just have to!!!

These days, I just miss being a under graduate student, it was much more easier and less stressful!

I'm also afraid of the real life because I'm not sure what's next for me!!! I'm a planner and I don't like being in the dark like this! I find myself torn between the student life and the real life.

Some things are really hard for me to express in English, I just feel that my thoughts in French would be 100 times better that what I just wrote! I have basically to think in French and translate everything in my head before typing anything!