Thursday, August 03, 2006

[stunned]

in my meeting with the advisor today, i think we killed the thesis problem ..

.. and no, 'killed' doesn't mean 'solved;'
it means 'unsolvable' or at least 'intractable.'
maybe it means 'impossible.'

i prefer the term 'insoluble,' myself.

i mean, i got a corollary out of the deal,
and if i write it up, maybe that will be a paper.

but for now, i think i'll crawl under a rock, and stay there for a while.

3 comments:

Lynn said...

A paper out of the deal doesn't so bad. Good luck with what is next when you crawl out from underneath that rock, which I don't think you should do in the first place.

Anonymous said...

Good job: kill it before it kills you. Seriously, you've got plenty of time to prove other things.

janus said...

[re: lynn's comment]

you make a good point, as many others have made to me (online or otherwise). give me a few days, and i might be mentally ready to ponder this advice.