Writing My Master's Thesis in a Weekend.
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I just came from watching your 20 page research paper video and I immediately noticed a immense difference in your work style and confidence. It’s really inspiring to see how much more organized, reassured, and prepared you are now. It gives me hope that my horrible procrastination habits can improve with slow changes 😭😭 I’m going to try your strategies of giving myself a 10 minute break and using the Merve channel! I was also curious what you mastered in! I’m currently a senior in high school and wondering about college. Thanks for sharing your experience!!
Hi!! I got both my BA and MA in Political Science:)! What are you thinking of majoring in since you’re a senior?
@@maddsvlogs Hi!! Thanks for your response :) Political science sounds really cool! I’m currently in AP Government class and really enjoying it. I’m planning on majoring in English and then getting a MA in Education to become a teacher :) I’ve always loved my Language Arts classes and teachers, and I also enjoy writing (most of the time 😅)
@@allysonespinosa8253 i love that! I am actually in the process of becoming a teacher myself :) I loved AP Gov, after taking that class I decided to do political science! I’d love to go back and get my MA or PhD in education if in a few years from now I am really enjoying teaching. :)
@@maddsvlogs Ahh that’s amazing!! I’m excited to teach :) What grade do you plan on teaching?
@@allysonespinosa8253 7-8th social studies! What grade for you?
I just want everyone to know that I didn’t do this totally last minute. There was a lot I didn’t show in this video. I wrote the first version of this paper in April of 2022 and I didn’t get my first round of revisions back until October 2022. After I got my revisions back I immediately began working on my lit review and read about 50 articles (not exaggerating), and I took notes of important elements from each of them and put them into a GoogleDocs for future Maddy to deal with, i then spent 3 weeks working on my data and perfecting my models and creating graphs in R. This video focused mostly on the writing portion and it ignored all the hard work and months of prep I did before this. 😌 I’m very proud of all the work I put into this!
If you all want me to make a video about my strategy for writing let me know 😌
I would love to see a writing strategy video!! I’ve enjoyed all your videos so much, I’m currently in my second year of college and your videos help me so much by
1) reminding me that the stress I have is normal and
2) seeing you successfully complete the things you were stressed out about gives me so much motivation and confidence that I can do the same.
@@kitty_sweetums it’s so funny you commented this because I am literally writing that exact video right now!
Ah, thankfully you're not that stupid. But yeah, articulating your findings can be intensely difficult.
Im glad that you improved.
girl, you have done it again. constantly raising the bar and doing it flawlessly
I have never left my assignments to the last minute but I do have recurrent nightmares of situations where I only have 1 night to write my thesis and I wake up terrified. And I’m in my 30s. I salute you for doing this.
I just finished my Masters and can 100 percent appreciate the way it feels to finish a paper of this magnitude! Well done and very well deserved
Yay! Congratulations to you!!
I really admire how you keep a healthy lifestyle while dealing with this. When I’m in a rush for a paper I don’t eat don’t sleep don’t do anything but write until I’m done, I really need to work on that 😂
Thank you! I think taking breaks is an important part of the process :)
"I just feel like I ate a bunch of sugar and I'm just coming down of it"
GIRL YES!!! Exactly!!! Presented my research to get my undergrad in Biomedicine like two days ago and I still feel like that. Almost burst out crying because it hadn't hit me until that point that I'm done with it haha
watching this in spring 2024 to motivate myself to hunker down to finish my grad thesis, lol. took five days off of work, hoping i can get it done in a week since i did most of the preliminary work. thanks for the inspiration!!
I’m glad I came upon this I’ve been working on and off on my thesis for the last couple years. I took the first class where you write the draft and I did okay in there
My aunt passed away from battling cancer in 2021 and then last spring my mom got very sick and passed away in April. The last few months were very hard to the point where I didn’t care and I’m still dealing with grief and depression but I am bound and determined to get this done in memory of my mom and myself
Writing your thesis in memory of your mom may be the best way to grieve.. may they rest in peace. Good luck to you, i wish you the very best.
I’m so sorry 💔😞
Congrats! The amount of times I go back to you 20 paper page video to remind myself never to go that far (i probably will) whenever I have an essay crisis...Haha, I remember you saying you made that video to remind yourself not to procrastinate but its a hard cycle to break. But srsly watching you overcome such odds is amazing and inspiring. - member of the procrastination cycle since kindergarten
Wow, thank you!:)
I love these videos so much, it’s so encouraging 😩🙌🏾
Thank you for posting about your process. I’ve been coming across similar situations in my academic career and seeing you persevere is giving me confidence to do the same!
Really enjoyed the procrastination trilogy. As a college student, a very relatable and inspiring story. Congrats on completing your schooling
aww girl I'm so proud of you!!! I just found your channel, and I'm a sophomore in high school, and I'm so excited for my college experience, and I don't know how I will feel when school is finally over. You are so beautiful and I feel like you will do great things in life!❤
Like others, I came from watching your 10 page essay video. I wish I would have come across this when I was working on my dissertation (randomly found it in my feed lol), but it is nice to reflect as I continue to improve myself everyday. Congratulations on all of your achievements and growth!!
I just completed my Masters in August and every feeling you mentioned completely resonated with me! Congrats on your achievement🎉🎉🎉
From someone else who completed their master's in 2022 as well, CONGRATULATIONS! Nobody can take this away from you and you should bask in this accomplishment. Bravo, Master! Own that title, you earned it :)
YES THANK U FOR THIS!!!!!!
Omg your procrastination videos GIVE ME LIFE! They make me feel not alone and let me know that other people procrastinate. I'm here typing a 5 page paper the night before and im stressing, watching your videos are a BIG help!
Feels weird to say, but I'll miss you procrastinating (❤ sorry!)
I’m the biggest procrastinator myself (I discovered I had ADHD 10 yrs after graduating uni), however my brain is so slow at processing thoughts and putting them into sentences and I genuinely struggle to recall the simplest of words so I could never ever do anything the night before it’s due or I’d fail miserably! I always needed about 3-4 days before it’s due for me to get it done in time (and that’s only for 2-3k word papers)! At day 3 before due date my stress levels are usually high enough for me to be motivated enough to start working on it knowing if I wait any longer I’m screwed lol. I was so jealous of those who could do things the night before and only have to deal with one night of stress instead of 3-4 😂 and you write a whole thesis in a weekend or a 20 page assignment in half a day! I wish I had your brain 😂
But all that aside I still did really well academically and won awards and was one of the top performing students in my faculty.
I love your voice so much, and your talking is exactly how I talk to myself in these type of situations 😅
congratulations!!! so proud of how far you've come
Thank you!! 🥰🥰
Congratulations!!!🎉 I’ve just come from your 20 page essay video and I’m fully in the same boat.. procrastination got the best of me and I’ve got a 2000 word essay due in a couple hours. This is so comforting and encouraging at the same time 😩😅
Thank you so much! You’ve got this 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
I just got my own master's this May and remember going through a similar crisis of recurring imposter system while finishing my thesis in March (a year-long process in itself), but I totally empathize with the sheer relief and anticipation that comes with completing and submitting a paper like this. Well done!
Thank you 😌😌😌
congratulations :))!! loved the self care you incorporated
Self care is the most important part of doing something like this :) thank you!!
Kudos chica!! I relate so much!!! I just pulled a doozy with 5 chapter and presentation for PhD program. Hitting send last night was so satisfying! I'm happy for you and allowing us on the procrast journey lol
Congratulations, so happy for you !
Thank you so much 🥰🥰🥰
Congratulations G! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you Isaiah!!
your fit and hair for the presentation were so pretty! congrats on passing your thesis.
Thank you!
Congratulations Madison! I came from your other video - ironically, I'm a high schooler in the last few days before the supplemental essays for 7 colleges I'm applying to are due - and I'm also going into political science. Guess I'll be seeing more of what you're doing in the years to come. You know what they say about procrastination - either conquer it, or embrace and master it (like you!), there's no good in-between.
Good luck with your essays! I’m sure you’ll make a great political scientist:)
Congratulations :) It was so satisfying to see you erase that last period as the finale. I recently sent in the last essay of my graduate career and I had similar feelings while finishing up my conclusion. Nice to see that you are able to celebrate - personally I'm feeling absolutely nothing. Think I'm still numb and in shock that I got through these last 2 yrs lol
Thank you :) I was just so excited to be done with the monotonous tasks of grad school and with my paper! You should celebrate even if it’s something small, it’s a big accomplishment!
hair looks amazing at the end there! wow!
Thank you so much 💗
congratulations!!! you must have done really well based on the reactions. also new hair look awesome on you!
Thank you so much 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Wow congratulations!!
Awesome congrats!
WOW I'm currently doing my undergraduate dissertation in the UK and I only have 11,000 words due in may (besides my other modules but still) and im stressing already cos I feel like I self-sabotage and burn out quickly cos I over stress, so honestly these videos say a lot about how well u manage pressure! and well done!!!
I am currently writing my master's thesis, on a schedule of 2 pages a day over 35 days until January 25. Right now I am at the "why did I have to do this to myself? I should have taken my bachelor's degree and wave uni good-bye"-stage. I am stressed and anxious (I am constantly thinking that what I write is not good enough and will I even meet minimum standard to pass?) - especially because it will be graded by the same prof as was my bachelor's thesis, and her feedback was "best bachelor's thesis I read in a long time" - I feel like if I can not repeat that stunt, I will look like an imposter, if that makes any sense? This idea that she will be disappointed when she reads my thesis... because she expected more of me.
I went through this last year (August 2021) and yeah it's a rough journey. But there will come success and proud moments for you. If you managed to do so well at the bachelor's stage, sounds like you know what you're doing. Have confidence!
I have struggled with this exact issue. A prof will tell me that my essay was amazing and they can't wait to read my next one and then I am paralyzed by fear because I feel like the first one was a fluke and now I'm going to disappoint them and then I literally consider dropping out. Just know you're not alone and KEEP GOING. Don't let your thoughts stop you from living the life you want to live!
How did it go? Its been two months.
I was procrastinating and found you (your 20 page research video) and i just finished one of my assignments while watching this video. Your videos are really helping me rn lmao so thank you!! glad i found your channel
Congrats on finishing and getting your masters! Not everyone can do that!
I just found you channel and absolutely love your vibe! Congrats on this!! I’m a first year architecture student and my work looks a lot different to yours, but the feeling of “why the hell did I not do this sooner” is all the same lol
Thank you! Congrats on being a first year architect, that was actually one of my dream jobs as kid! Such a cool profession
I got your 20pg paper video recommended and GIRL! This is literally the life of procrastinating 🤦🏾♀️
I'm currently writing my last paper as undergrad Poli sci major, it's 10 pages. Just finished your procrastination paper vids. Onto my last paper, I'm motivated.
Damn... Reminds me of trying to finish my own Master's Thesis before the due date in December.
I kept putting off writing it, too. Mental illnesses got in the way and I had to take a semester break, but was still burned out and didn't have much written for my thesis when I came back in the Fall.
A month before the end of the semester, I passed my defense but was told to rewrite my entire thesis. I did that in two weeks, and only heard back from my main professor on revisions. My other committee professors didn't have any feedback for me, one went on a research trip and another got sick with COVID.
My main prof was e-mailing me daily with editing notes and trying to contact the other profs, but it was all crickets. I ended up submitting almost 30 pages to the head of my department the last day it was due when thesis requirements were 10 pages max of research without sources.
Good on you for researching and having your stuff ready so you could crank the actual paper out in 2 days.
I know this is a few weeks old, but congratulations on your achievement! Coming from a fellow expert procrastinator, I admire your ability to organize and plan out your time knowing that you struggle with this issue. Good luck in your future endeavors!
Congratulations!!
Thank you 💗
Blessings
i loved this so much
Thank you 😌😌
Haha I just came from your 20 pg research paper video and I was checking your channel to see if you stopped procrastinating. Guess not! 🤣🤣 This was 100% me all thru school, I'm soooooo much better with time management at work than I was in school.
Update: ahhh congrats on finishing grad school!
Thank you so much 🥰
currently doing this w my undergrad dissertation, i’ve been writing it but it’s been incredibly slow and my deadline is in 2 days. ur vid gives me hope so thank you so much
I’m majoring in poli sci and this sounds so similar to my research methods paper I have due next Thursday, it’s 1800 words and I haven’t started it yet! But this makes me feel better 😅 congrats on finishing grad school!!
I love when others political science students comment ❤️ you’ve got this!!😌😌😌
@@maddsvlogs update I finished my paper and submitted it a day before the deadline LOL ! Thank god I finished this last final paper 🤣
Awww, I'm also a poli sci student 😊 greetings from germany 🥰
Update: I got a B+ on my paper! Not bad at all, since I did it in about 5 days. And it was a project we were supposed to work on the entire semester lol.
@@bernie715 hi hi!!
20:46 it's amazing to think nearly (or sometimes more than) 6 years of school work culminates with one final touch up, and that's that. For me it was simply removing a grid from a figure. But regardless, in that moment you feel that weight lifted and that time taken out of you. Congrats!
If the Master's Thesis was about the psychology of procrastination, this would have been next-level.
ahh im in the middle of writing my thesis and I'm so elated for you!! I can't wait until I can also say I'm done. Its been a journey 🙃
Good luck!!
Congratulations! That's awesome. :3
I finished doing a presentation today at noon to defend my research project for my Master's degree. It actually went better than I hoped. I was worried about it ever since I started Graduate school lol
Here's hoping everything goes well and I recieve my degree. I have a good feeling it's gonna turn out alright.
Good luck!!
Congratulations- I don’t know you, but I’m so happy for you 🥹🥹🥹 I can’t even imagine how good it must feel…in addition to a ton of other feelings I’m sure! I look forward to more vlogs from you with whatever else it is you do after YOUVE GOTTEN YOUR MASTERS DEGREE!! P.S. your hair looks amazing that length. Please, if you have time, I’d love a video on exactly the cut you got and how you style it, cause I wanna copy it 💕 again, congratulations 💘💘
Thank you so much 🥰🥰
Congrats on your thesis!!! as a first year in grad school I find all your videos so relatable …… currently I’m struggling to finish the left 4000 words of my essay which is due tomorrow. To make it worse, I got covid and ‘ve been coughing for days…But I believe I’m gonna survive…yeah… Love your content!!!
I hope you were able to get it done! :)
What I love the most is that no matter how stressed you are you make sure to take breaks, sleep early.... etc . You really inspired me thank you ❤️
I realized that taking breaks made my work a lot better!
@@maddsvlogs true
@@maddsvlogs or pay people to do it for you
I just finished my Bachelor’s Thesis a couple of minutes ago and I went straight to this video for comfort 😅
the hair colour REALLY suits you!!! :)
Thank you 💗
Hey. Congratulations!! I’m currently in the process of writing my thesis as well. I would really love to read your paper once its public.
Thank you! I am in the process of submitting it to journals, so we will see :) it’s a tough world I’m academia, I have one paper that’s been rejected at least 10 times, but we are still trying to get it published!
@@maddsvlogs Good luck♥
I have a pamphlet due in January 4th, I am forced to procrastinate as I am on vacation and parents didn’t allow computers… I wrote everything beforehand and I am coming back home at Dec 31st so I have hopes that I can finish designing it while jet-lagging while earning a 6 (I am an IB student and we grade by /8, 6 is proficient)
came from your 20 page procrastination video, your hair LOOKS SO GOOD in the red and the braids. you are convincing me to go red fr
Thank you! I love being red! I have been for 2 years and I love it so much! Though I’m going to be transitioning to a strawberry blonde soon for summer because red and swimming don’t mix :/
Here I am watching this video while procrastinating
That is very impressive to write so much so quickly. I usually max out at 1000 a day.
I know I’m so very very late for this, but let me just say THAT I’M SO PROUD OF YOU 🎉❤😊
Not me procrastinating while watching her procrastination videos
congrats on being done with uni! also the channel you mentioned Study with Merve, the name is pronounced Mer- (like in Mary) and -ve is pronounced like vae. I think it’s a Turkish name so just wanted to let you know :)
these vids make me feel better that im procrastinating a paper on films instead of numbers lol
I just finished my essay at 1:47 am this is the longest I’ve stayed up to finish something.. I’m not sure if I even reached the word minimum count since quotes.
Last minute time! getting close to 24 hours for my undergrad thesis, done like 1000 words, gonna be a a tough day
Congrats on finishing college🎉🎉 I just found your channel and i am already super invested haha. May i ask how old you are? Because you look so young to me but you finished your masters so i was like… wow
I am 24:)
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Thank you for giving me hope. I have a huge series of exams (mock licensure exams :D) on january 5th-7th, and I'm still so not prepared for it. I have exactly a week to study.. Will update here.
Updates:
DAY 1
GOAL: Revise a ~700 page reviewer (Financial Accounting: Theory) !!
Done: 319 pages in 24 hrs. Not bad!!
DAY 2
Goal: Continue day 1 task (~200+ pages more). Move on to another subject questionnaires (RFBT/Law) (+200 pages)
Done: ....
Good luck on your exams!!
@@maddsvlogs thank you so much and congratulations!! i hope you are doing well these days 💜
haircut is cute good job congrats
Thank you 💗💗
meeeee. lol. except we had 6 months to work on it. I have to submit my draft by Friday with the hope to have it done and approved by Monday - send best wishes please.
I'm back and here again. Got an extension x2 and this is my final deadline, it's Thursday and I got to get this in on Sunday. Gonna die.
what time would you wake up if you go to bed at 8pm? cuz for me, 5 hours in enuf, so if I go at 8pm, I would literally wake up at 1am
Watching this while procrastinating my college assignments lol
I got less than 2 months left till the deadline I’m watching this cos I know this is what will happen to me if I don’t manage my time well fuck me lol
OH GOD NO...NOT A TRILOGY
SHE JUST LIKE ME FR
What did you study? Congrats ! 🎉🎉
Hi! I am writing my master thesis as well. What was your thesis about?
Oh hahahah I just had a flashback to finishing my MA thesis down to the wire before the deadline 😂 Did I mention it was written entirely in SPANISH??? (Yes I got my MA in Spanish!!!) 45 pages of beautiful español. I did not start the day before but I pulled an all nighter the day before it was due and spent the final hours formatting the effing bibliography. So when people tell me they wrote a last minute paper I’m not that impressed given I had to write mine in a foreign language. 😂 (I wrote nearly all my college papers in French or Spanish as I was a Spanish major). It is so hard to not sound repetitive writing in a foreign language. Did not read any of the medieval Spanish texts from my medieval Spanish literature class in college because omg it was boring me to death yet somehow got a good grade on the final take home assignment. 😅 honk if you ever had to suffer through El Cid 😆
¡buen trabajo! Yo estudio español todo los días. Yo tengo una ranch’s de 254 días en duolingo. Estoy orgullosa de mi misma 😹
Bumped into your channel by accident and I must say it's impressive how you manage to do the work, congrats! What was your major?
I got an MA and BA in political science :)
I need a hair tutorial your hair looks so beautiful towards the end of the video. 20:28
Thank you, but I recently cut about 7in off! I can try to show you how I do it but it may look different now that my hair is short :/
If you don’t mind my asking (and I might’ve missed this in the video), but what’s your thesis? Otherwise I extremely sympathise with you. Don’t know if you have adhd or not, but I got diagnosed with it DURING my masters, and suddenly all the missed deadlines and extensions and night-before essays made sense lol.
I’ll be starting my masters in may and I’m so nervous..I am not good at writing :/
Hi Maddy, this is the first video of yours that I’ve watched but I loved every minute of it! I definitely feel this stress and the weight of imposter syndrome, as I am currently working on my undergrad thesis to graduate with Honors and I feel very overwhelmed. I’m not usually a procrastinator, but this all just feels like a lot (plus I have other classes on top of everything).
It was so nice to see you finish this project, I was smiling and clapping for you when you said your defense went well!!
Side note: you probably said this in the video, but what was your final word count after all edits?
Thank you so much! Good luck with your presentation. My final word count was 9,965 :)
@@maddsvlogs thank you!!
And that’s great! I was just curious about the work count because I’ve been trying to figure out what I want to aim for.
@@maddsvlogs thank you!!
And that’s great! I was just curious about the work count because I’ve been trying to figure out what I want to aim for.
Next year: “I wrote and submitted my career-defining grant request in 2 hours”
Thank you SO SO much for mentioning Merve. That was the first time I heard about them and I've used those videos for 2 weeks now. I don't think I've ever been that productive and motivated lol. I finally stopped procrastinating the uni work I was avoiding for a month now 🥹
May I ask what degree are you pursuing and what school do you go to? Thanks :)
what do you study ?
The 3rd and final movie of the procrastination trilogy. LOL
What do you have a master's in?
Learnt nothing from this, what was the process? You nailed it but gurl share your process!
On here at November 30, 2023 9:22
The trilogy
Bro :DDD
I absolutely dread literature reviews
They suck! What do you mean I can’t just say “take my word for it” when explaining me theory /j
@@maddsvlogs Right? I just finished my undergrad in criminology and the writing has honestly burnt me out of wanting to do any sort of thesis-based graduate program anytime soon :/
@@noahbarber1234 i was super burnt out when I stared mine :/ but I didn’t have a choice because it was 2020 and there was literally nothing else I could do. Grad school is a lot different than undergrad tho. Less classes. Less class meetings. Less assignments. But a lot more reading and expectations.
Hello from England, I like to ask you two questions if that's okay (For my research).
1. Have you ever been tested for ADD? (Attention Deficit Disorder)
2. How often do you eat proteins and from what?
You don't have to answer but thank you if you do
1. No :) but not to get too into the weeds, I have a brother who needed a lot growing up, so any signs that I had something were severely overshadowed by his
2. at the time of the video: I ate protein every meal, mostly chicken, steak, and ground beef. Around the recommended portion sizes per US standards (a fist) for dinner. I don’t eat pork at all. Occasionally I had eggs. My diet was mostly fast foods, like chipotle in n out and cafe Rio.
@@maddsvlogsmaddsvlogs Thank you for replying, very helpful!
Without suggesting you do, some of the characteristics of ADD/ADHD
Hard to stay focus
Wait last minutes
Hard to get organise
Up late into the night
difficulty starting tasks
Eating habits
Procrastinating
Selective on tasks
and many more, and also on the biology but won't elaborate here (too long)
If you have 30 minutes maybe watch Ph.D Thomas E. Brown - czcams.com/video/ouZrZa5pLXk/video.html
If you do, I'll be interested of your thoughts (if okay) but a week or more after you watch it.
Thank you
Gilles Guichard