Honours Project: When Are You Getting Out of the Lab?

[UBackwardsChemistry]

Visit weekends are not an inconsiderable amount of time and (assuming that your school is on the semester system) that due date for the honours thesis is less than two months away. My question is this: when are people stopping labwork and writing up? I think that this coming week will be the last experimental one for me.

[lilam]

I'm done with mine. Didn't have any earth-shattering results so it ended fairly quick. I could work on some stuff but they won't be of any significance to my thesis. However, my first draft is due in March so I need to start writing it like now. 

[Faraday]

If everything goes well I'll have to run one or two more experiments. Keyword there is "if"... Realistically my advisor has said it would be ok if I had to run with only the data I have now, it just wouldn't be quite as pretty as is ideal. The goal is to be done by March, so I can spend most of the month writing everything up and pulling everything together.

Edited February 16, 2013 by Faraday

[St Andrews Lynx]

This thread makes me glad I'm one of those geriatric grad school applicants who has already graduated...

 

(The writing up and submission of my final year research project clashed with the weekend of a ballroom dancing competition. I figured the UK-wide competition would be more enjoyable and life-enhancing than the Chemistry research project ever could...so when I got back from the comp on Sunday night I headed straight to the computing lab, stayed up until I was too tired to type, then submitted a final draft on the Monday afternoon. Drank a lot of atrociously bad coffee in the process. My overall research project mark was a mediocre 60%...but damn I don't regret prioritising the DanceSport)

 

Good luck to all final year chemists!

[frankstoneline]

This thread makes me glad I'm one of those geriatric grad school applicants who has already graduated...

 

(The writing up and submission of my final year research project clashed with the weekend of a ballroom dancing competition. I figured the UK-wide competition would be more enjoyable and life-enhancing than the Chemistry research project ever could...so when I got back from the comp on Sunday night I headed straight to the computing lab, stayed up until I was too tired to type, then submitted a final draft on the Monday afternoon. Drank a lot of atrociously bad coffee in the process. My overall research project mark was a mediocre 60%...but damn I don't regret prioritising the DanceSport)

 

Good luck to all final year chemists!

 

Was just thinking the same thing!