material which infringes on much I wanted to contain in my thesis.
Arghhhh! So now I have ordered this very expensive book so I can check it out and alter my thesis.
I really didn't want this, a month before my next panel.
Anybody have experience of this?
b*******! How dare they? I think you should buy some crayons and draw all over their precious bloody book. Then put some nice colourful pictures on your thesis. Flowers maybe. Or a little kitten. and a smily face. That can be the originality bit.
I have often imagined sending a thesis to my supervisors with puppies and kittens in it, a few flowers, and happy faces - and my preface would read (verbatim):
" I wrote bout animals cos I fink they r well cute"
The book arrived. I read it - it is magisterial. My thesis is ravaged, I will have change chunks - but thank god, she has ommited to look at something I was signficantly looking at. So relief and tears in (unequal) measure.
Look on the bright side - at least it means you're on the right track, and not writing daft nonesense :) If a good academic is replicating your ideas, then they must be good! Chin up.
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