Saturday, April 9, 2011

Thesis v. Blog

Note to self: Your thesis writing is your thesis writing. Your blog is your blog. Keep the emotional philosophizing contained, and contained here.

Just removed from my thesis document:
"This was incredibly disheartening and it meant spending an entire semester being rejected over and over though being completely ignored or through by led on then disappointed. Is it worse be get stood up on a first date or to never get a date at all? Does it matter? No. Rejection feels like failure- sometimes it is and it’s your fault- but when it was a matter of people simply not responding to my laboriously crafted emails and voicemail messages- delicately constructed to seem thorough but concise, confident but not entitled, warm and open but professional.... well, it felt really lousy and I didn’t know what to do except keep emailing, keep calling, keep Googling, and then..."

Blegh.

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