A sudden realization
Dear thesis:
I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here in Portugal. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually a scientific work.
Every scientific work on this planet is the result of a natural equilibrium between creativity, a relaxed and open-minded attitude, and the natural talent of scientific researchers, but you theses are not. When I should be working on you, procrastinating habits appear and multiply and multiply until every time resource is consumed… and the only way I can actually work on you is to ingest vast amounts of caffeine and spread the work to the wee hours of the night.
There is another type of work that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A Program. PhD theses are a form of source code, another by-product of caffeine. You’re a program and I am a programmer.
Let’s get back to work.
