no offense to algebraists, but ..

.. sometimes abstract algebra can be very, very annoying, including linear algebra.

      i now have a deep distrust of modules,
      unless they are vector spaces, of course.

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ADDENDUM (7:35 PM). the desire to finish a thesis will make you do strange and questionable things. here are two examples.

1. turning down a dinner invitation, in order to make corrections to your thesis draft;
   
2. reading hungerford's algebra as a reference ..just in case.. even though your thesis topic consists of metric spaces and geometric measure theory.