Dissertation... the final road

Particularly wise to Gmail it to yourself every now and again too - then you've got a copy in the 'cloud' as well as on disc. If you can spare the ink, it's worth printing a draft copy before you go to the binding place - just in case it all goes horribly wrong, you've still got something to hand in.
 
If I get into uni, I'm scared ******** about the dissertation, I mean, like above, someone did 8k words on tiger woods scandal and the effect on sponsors, thinking right now, I don't think I could get 2000 words from that, where do you pull all the words from!?!?!? I think that I am going to be doing some sort of business course too, well scared!!
 
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The printing sections of the I.T rooms resembled something out of Saving Private Ryan on hand-in day... glad I took the hit to buy my own laser printer to just save all the aggravation.
 
Good luck to all those writing/handing in/waiting for marks on thier dissertations. I have done two (one project for a degree and one disseration for masters) so i know how nerve wreaking and hard you have to work.
 
Ahh I miss my dissertation :( did it this time last year and really enjoyed it.

Now I have no bodged together electronics with flashing lights on my desk!

Mine was 14k but think I went slightly over, probably to 10%. I thought I'd finished about 6 days before the deadline and to be fair I had the main bit but decided to completly rewrite my introduction as Id only skimmed over it in January, glad I did really as it really sets a tone.

I handed mine in a day or 2 before the deadline but went along with a mate on the day and it was pandamonium. We also had to submit an A1 poster with it and there was only 2 plotters in the whole uni. That was a sight as well!
 
willhub said:
If I get into uni, I'm scared ******** about the dissertation, I mean, like above, someone did 8k words on tiger woods scandal and the effect on sponsors, thinking right now, I don't think I could get 2000 words from that, where do you pull all the words from!?!?!? I think that I am going to be doing some sort of business course too, well scared!!
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dont be.

if your not at uni yet, chill out. You will have plenty of assistance if needs be. But when the time comes, pick a subject that you like, and the words write them selves. You’ll find it hard….to stick under the word limit.
 
Trying to bring myself to starting it now. Hand in date is 14th May and I just can't get motivated to do it. I'm lucky though in that I have no classes or any other bits of work to be done before the end of May. Started in September and had a good bit done but it was based on the recession and then as we went out of recession it just didn't seem worthwhile doing and I was finding it too frustrating to keep updating all the figures. Decided now to look at the impact that the recession has had on consumer confidence.

I need someone to give me a good boot to get me going!:mad:
 
It's threads like this that made me so glad I did the course I did. Our lecturer said before we really started that as long as we hand in a field notebook and a coloured in map we will pass, followed by mentioning that 6k words would also be fine. :p

In the end I pretty much hit slap bang the word limit of 10k and finished it the night before, handing it in with 4 hours to spare (our deadline was the middle of Feb). :D When I finished it though it seemed to leave a massive hole in my life.:o

I was lucky enough to have a laser printer so printed one B&W copy and most of the pages of the colour copy, just printing out the colour pages at uni, which really saved me a bundle.

I may end up starting a Masters Thesis this time next year, followed by a presentation of the findings to not just coursemates and lecturers but senior members of some of the larges companies in the world... :eek:
 
to those that've already printed and handed in their dissertations - how many of you had colour illustrations or elements in them?

i'm intending to do my whole dissertation in black and white... which might have to do with me having a black-and-white laser-printer.

i'm not really sure what to do mine on, i've got several ideas, mostly relating to message or data cryptography, but i'm nervous that i'll start my subject and run out of things to say only half-way into the wordlimit :eek:

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BigglesPIP - that looks very impressive. did you program the logo into the PIC?
 
Aod said:
to those that've already printed and handed in their dissertations - how many of you had colour illustrations or elements in them?

i'm intending to do my whole dissertation in black and white... which might have to do with me having a black-and-white laser-printer.

i'm not really sure what to do mine on, i've got several ideas, mostly relating to message or data cryptography, but i'm nervous that i'll start my subject and run out of things to say only half-way into the wordlimit :eek:

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BigglesPIP - that looks very impressive. did you program the logo into the PIC?
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The screen can store bitmaps for future rendering, it stores fonts too.

I found that a cheap Canon all in one was cheaper than the printing costs, so I bought one and raped the black ink cartridge.
 
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For the dissertation it's just a PIC16F877 receiving all the signals from the loom and interpreting them, then instructing the screen.
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do you not suffer problems with 'observer effect' in doing it that way, or is that factorted and corrected?

Either way, nice work :)

edit; i'm sure i've got one of them screens somewhere too
 
About half my pages had colour elements (photos, maps, diagrams), however my course probably isn't very similar to most on here so a computing course would probably not need many.

Could always do what I did anyway, print out the fully black pages at home then just print out the few colour pages at uni.
 
Good luck to all you guys doing the Disser this year! I hope it goes all well for you! Massive relief when its done and your graded for it. :D For what its worth I did one copy of my disser in colour and one in black. My tutors kept the colour one. :)
 
GeX said:
do you not suffer problems with 'observer effect' in doing it that way, or is that factorted and corrected?

Either way, nice work :)
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:D

There's no way I can see that the observer can introduce a delay to the reading beyond what the C program and the screen does but there's nothing can be done about that, I looked at several ways to measure RPM, the one I used has the fastest time to take a sample. The user can't affect the thing being measured, but the circuit; maybe the potential divider on the coolant temp sensor can cause a self heating effect, but the power expended on the thermistor is less than 10mW.
 
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I have a dissertation to do for my masters in game design this year but it's not due until September.. benefit of a masters course I guess :)

Been far too busy with the taught course but I finish the last assignment today then exams until mid May then I just have the dissertation to concentrate on.

"Integration of Raytracing Techniques into Realtime Rasterised Applications" as a working title.
 
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80k? What professor is going to read that? That's basically a thesis.
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I'm doing my final year design project atm (I do engineering) and our group report is ~450 pages and 97,000 words (between 5 of us). Our supervisor has 3 of those to read as well as about 6 induvidual design project reports which are going to be about 100-150 pages in length.

Wouldn't like to be him after we hand them in on May 7th...
 
Mines due in next week. Been pretty much working on it solid this week. 3/4 of the way done. Only 8000 words though but going to need more then that. Going to be allot of cutting down. Creating a complete bathymetric chart of plymouth sound.
 
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