Catalyst, some Master's degrees do require a thesis! It's not just PhD/doctoral programs. I completed a thesis for mine. Good luck ... I'm impressed that you're pregnant with twins, have two kids already, and can find the time to study for such an intense project!
It hasnt been easy. In the beginning there was the morning sickenss (24/7) and then fatique and me not having stamina or concentration to fully accomplish anything for a while.
We are required to make some kind of research, most do some kind of interviews, either with individual or a group one, write what came out of that, have a section of what other studys and such say about the subject and so on. Research paper? Not sure what to call it. minimum of 18000-20000 words. I have lot done but also lot left and should be sending my instructor the final draft now but he understands my situation and gave me more time. I due have to be finished by the 10th of may cause then it goes for a pannel that wil judge my work. Wont have to defend it thank god!! would not be able to handle it i think, hormonal and all.
My main goal is just finishing! i usualy have high standards on my projects but I just might not have the time now to do so.. it is hard to lower your standard to try work faster though.. It is just question of finishing in time, not having it hanging over my head when in maternity leave and trying to finish with two infants! also i need to finish so I get my students loan for this semester! it is litle bit frustrating tough having to lower my standards since I have one if not the highest average in my year and have been all the five years of my study. But the thought of being finished, never going to school again other than just for work (as a teacher) is awsome!!
No, you're right. Thesis is master and some crazy research publication is phd. I just always forget because my degree was in a tech field technically (instructional science and technology) so in lieu of a thesis we created a capstone project.
We were supoced to do some kind of reasearch, send out questionnaires or take interviews or something. Paper should begin with what the field and other studys say about the subject, then what method you used, partisipants and how you collected your data, then results and then discussions.
Cause i was so sick and pregnancy giving me hard time i was runing out of time to prepair my research and do it. The shcool has been doing a huge research over the years and my instrucor managed to get some data from that research to use. Did some statistical tests in spss on it, changed my subject a bit in the process but might be what makes me able to finish.
Master's is typically a thesis or final project + comps, and a PhD is a dissertation. My master's program required a thesis where we ran our own experiments. We had to get IRB approval, run the experiment, write a paper on the experiment in an academic journal style, and then defend in front of a panel. It was grueling. I broke down several times throughout the process esp when my advisor crossed out my entire paper without a lick of feedback and told me to start over after a year of working on my paper with a PhD student to whom he had assigned me. I'm feeling angry again just thinking about it...but I finished and it's done and I love my career so I just focus on that bit
Been hearing horror storys about masters papers like this all winter, and i think i would definitly cry or have a melt down if all the work and effort I am puting in this now would be for nothing! I am just aiming for qualifying now.. will probably be my lowest grade in 5 years.. kind of sucks, been one of if not the highest each year all the years so.. but if it gets be through so I might graduate this june i take it!
Infant/child cpr class went great! It honestly helped DH and I feel a bit more comfortable preparing for baby.
I have my echocardiogram and 7-day event monitor fitting tomorrow. I'm excited because I hope this can help me figure out why I've been randomly having palpitations... And hey if it's anxiety, I'm ok with that.
Hope everyone else is doing well..
Anxiety is nothing to be shamed of and it can have so so so much bodily affect on you, literaly make you physicaly sick. My younger brother has anxiety, been doing realy realy well for realy long time. Visited his girlfriend (he lives in Iceland she in Sweden) and had massive anxiety attack and had not taken his meds with him (first time that happened) and they were so expencive in Sweden my parents had to send it to him in the mail. It was about 3 weeks ago i think and he is still not fully recovered after it and is now taking his meds on daily bases in stead of when in need like he had been doing. So frustrating for him to be doing that well for a long time (had goten a promotion, girlfriend and looking better) then chrasing so badly like that.
I do hope they find what is wrong and that it aint something bad or serius.
Well.. i think I have written a essay here! sorry girls.. Just having a bad cold and hard to focus on my study (but did write 3000 words in two days!) and also looking forward to our scan that is in about 40 min or so
I am so happy that you are finally getting to experience some of the love and cuddles that the rest of us have been getting, makes a world of difference to have bd loving on your bump and feeling like you have support
. I was at my heaviest when I got pregnant so it doesn't help I never imagined being this weight. SO keeps telling me I'm growing a baby and everyone says I look good but =\
the right one is still giving hard time, her but was way low and she said.. I think.. I think it is a girl.. then she moved and she said "Im fairly sertain it is a girl, and I cant see anything that hints it is a boy." and showed us the three lines. Not as obvius as with the left one but we could see it. When we had our younger son she was not trying to see the gender and we still saw a penis! haha 
