Comments on: I won’t let you down

By: k.

k. — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:58:37 +0000

What the other Koen said!

By: Koen

Koen — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:24:12 +0000

Yes, finish it goddammit! We shall finish it! :)

By: Dimitra

Dimitra — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:11:28 +0000

Clismo, that’s great! Dropping out of my first course was possibly the best decision I ever made, even though it took me four years to make it, even though I did it four years too late. And this close to the end. It was still a great decision.

Even so, this time last year Martijn was practically two weeks’ work away from finishing, so I think trying to finish seems like the reasonable thing to do. He has practically written the thing, he was in the fine-tuning stage last time I checked… no?

By: rachel

rachel — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:29:23 +0000

I’ll let you into a secret… nobody believes they will ever finish writing their PhD thesis and everybody gets scared that they do not have the discipline or the motivation to complete it. But you will. You’ve got this far after all.
Of course you won’t believe me, nobody working on a PhD ever really believes this advice and thinks that the people giving it must have been better than them. But we weren’t. We were all just as scared/guilty/unhappy before we finished.
Keep going. The sense of accomplishment and feeling of relief and freedom at the end of it all is worth it, I promise.

By: papa

papa — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:22:35 +0000

Je kan jezelf pas veranderen als je accepteert hoe je bent. Geloof in jezelf, zoals ik in jou geloof!
Of het je lukt of niet, je bent en blijft een prachtig mens.

In English: (but i’m not a good english writer)
You can justed changed yourself, if you you accepted yourself. Belief in yourself, such as I your belief.If you do not succeed or, you are and remains splendid people.

By: clismo

clismo — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:17:21 +0000

one of the best decisions in my life was to decide (and tell everyone) that i would not finish university

the relief!

okay, i ended up as garbage collector
but a happy garbage collector!