I have officially applied for my degree to be completed this spring semester!  Sounds great right?  Wrong.  I have 60 days (not even really) to finish my project and have the thesis defended.  Here is my approximate timeline:

• February 29th:  Project coding complete
• March 14th:  Models generated for case study
• March 21st:  First draft of Thesis
• April 7th:  Tentative Final draft
• April 14th:  Submit Thesis to Committee
• April 28th:  Defend!

There is only a short list of things to do between now and then… problem is the short list is a lot of work.  I need to finalize my code and generate a successful model.  Then I need to make a components database and generate 4 different models to do a case study to see how my code works.  The components database will be the hardest thing to do (I haven’t even finalized the one for the AUV that actually exists, though I’m going to try to do that today).

I have mixed feelings about this whole thing.  My to-do list is so short I feel like I should be able to just knock it out in a week (say, over spring break which is what I’m shooting for) BUT experience tells me that I’m going to run into a lot of problems.  I just can’t seem to make myself face it.  Dr. Neu doesn’t seem to think that I can do it in this short amount of time… and that may give me the motivation I need to do it…

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D: -60 days and counting