As was probably quite telling from my presentation, my\nproject has gone through a bit of a rollercoaster over the past week and as I\ndidn\u2019t really have enough time to explain it then, I thought it would be worth\ntalking about in my final blog post of the semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It all started when I visited Bernhard\u2019s office hours last\nweek on Thursday. Blissfully ignorant, I was in the midst of a statistics and\ncoding deadline (I know numbers – gross), which was also due on Tuesday. Given\nmy general preference of words over numbers and relative lack of skill with\ncomputers, let alone statistical coding, I had been rather preoccupied most of\nlast week, only doing limited research \u2018as a break\u2019 throughout the week. So\nwhen I approached Bernhard on Thursday afternoon I had a lot of ideas but very\nlittle in the way of structure. And if I were going to be honest, I\u2019d basically\ncome to him with a long list of my favourite beauty queens and a few\noverarching themes. After I had presented everything I had researched in a\nquick 15 minutes spiel that essentially consisted of the random connections between\nreadings I had made in my mind and the rabbit holes I\u2019d fallen down on the\ninternet during my research, he sort of looked at me and said something along\nthe lines of, \u201chave you considered a dissertation?\u201d Because as we started\nascribing arbitrary word counts to the different sections, e.g. 1000 words for\nthe introduction, 1500 for the first section on transnational actors etc., I\nstarted to realise I would only really be able to talk about 2, maybe 3 at the\nmost, beauty queens in the 5,000 words we have for this essay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This made me deeply, deeply upset. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had about 6-8 favourite queens I wanted to talk about and\nthose were only the ones who had made the shortlist. I was also being difficult\nas I had my mind set on writing an essay and was quite opposed to anything\nelse. A dissertation also wasn\u2019t really an option for me, as I have to write a\ndissertation for Geography in the second semester and I think two dissertations\nin one semester would quite possibly been the end of me. But above all else, I really <\/em>didn\u2019t want to give up my beauty\nqueens at the end of this semester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So I went to speak to the oracle of module choices, Mr Derek\nPatrick. He made me aware of the possibility of doing a \u2018History Project\u2019,\nwhich consists of an 8,000-word essay (75%) and a presentation (25%) in the\nfirst semester, (which sounds an awful lot like a dissertation considering my\ngeography one will only be 7,000 words but who am I to say). Ergo, here I am\ntoday about to embark on my final year where I will write two (sort of)\ndissertations in my final year. Yay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But all in all I managed to solve the problem I had about\ntoo few words this semester, by essentially delaying this problem into next\nsemester, where I\u2019ll probably find myself in the same situation come November\nand end up deciding to write a PHD and dedicating my life to the Miss World\nbeauty pageant all because of this one module I took in my third year of my\nundergraduate degree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Future aside, what this means for me now in the next few\nweeks is that I need to write another project proposal that gives me enough\nscope for further research next semester but also is detailed enough to land me\na decent mark this semester, whilst constantly keeping in the back of my mind\nthe looming danger of self-plagiarism and the perils of the ominous TGAP. Easy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As was probably quite telling from my presentation, my project has gone through a bit of a rollercoaster over the past week and as I didn\u2019t really have enough time to explain it then, I thought it would be worth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5wNtZ-nl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}