I thought about putting this in the petty accomplishments thread, but I guess it's relevant to this, plus I want to ramble some.
I'm planning to graduate in May so the clock is seriously ticking. The first draft of my thesis is due on April 2, which is something like 6 weeks from now.
I don't think it will be an issue, I have been meeting my deadlines and I do have a modicum of publishable results, so I should be able to bang something out by then. I just feel like if I had all the time in the world I could really do it right and make it amazing and perfect, but I don't, so I have to keep chanting my "done is better than perfect" mantra and moving forward. My main priority is to graduate, but it would still be nice to create something I'm proud of.
That said, I do have a petty accomplishment to brag about, which is that I am working in machine learning and computer vision and in machine learning you have your training phase and your testing phase and the training phase takes a really long time. So I set it up to go overnight last night, and I thought, "good luck, my little program. learn well!" and I felt kind of silly about it, but I was nervous and excited about my computer program running overnight and learning all on her own. I was excited to get up this morning and she how she did, and goddamnit she learned!
I feel like such a proud papa.
