Project Woes....
Today is the 15'Th of January. Pretty soon It will be the end of March and time for me to submit my final year graduation project and receive my degree. The only problem......I still haven't started my project yet.
With the clock ticking on, I am getting more and more panicky. Its all the result of my procrastination. I should have started looking for a lab to do my project much earlier than I actually did. I had three options :-
- In my college lab
- In a private institute
- In another educational institution
Naturally I took the path of least resistance first. I thought about doing it in one of the labs of my college with any one of my semi-competent staffs as a project guide. This was not a very bad idea except for the fact that I would have to compete with 170 other students for even the most basic equipment like a measuring balance and wait for weeks for chemicals and supplies to arrive. With that option exhausted I moved on to the next one.
The private institutes are numerous in Chennai and more than eager to allow students to use their premises for doing an project. The only impediment- they charge exorbitant fees for projects that you would learn nothing out of. And also there will be at least ten other students with the same project and readings that I would have. Thus...REJECTED
Final option...This was the only one which worked. The HOD of a botany department in a reputed university agreed to let me do the project in his. Satisfied that everything was settled, I went to my home and never bothered to check again till last week, when they told me that I can use the lab but there will be no one to guide me because all the research scholars who guide students are in the final thesis writing stage and too busy. With my limited intelligence and endless hours of bunking labs, I don't even to use a pipette properly. Not knowing what to do next, I am reduced to praying that someone out of the blue will appear magically to guide me and get my project over with. Where is the silver lining in this cloud??
17 people have commented:
Oh dats sad!
I am rady to help u though. Will i paid in dollars? :D
shud read - will i be paid in $ :D
Oh no! Dont worry Ganesh, everything will fall in place. I will pray for thee! :)
I hope everything will turn out out great. I will pray for you:-)
How about putting a note in ur collage about paying some senior some small fee for their help/assistance. You never know..
all the best! Let things take it's own course...all will be ok.
Keshi.
@prithz:
Oh thank you very much prithz. Enakku terinja dollars'la payment panna poren. Ayyapan dollar'aa illa murugan dollar'aa?
@karthik:
thanks very much dude...please include 5 mins prayer for me in your daily prayer. I am desperate enough to try anything at this point.
@mommyof2:
great idea...but the only problem is that we are the seniormost batch of biotech in our dept....and since our academic level is so mediocre, I hope any of my juniors don't get this idea...
@keshi:
Thanks, Keshi....I too hope so..
silver lining is the fact that there's a lot of time left..
@krithika:
That is not much of a silver lining....time is not very useful when you have nowhere to do the project...
hello,
first time here.Thanks for stopping by my blog. Wouldn't the internet help you? There should even be interactive lab tutorials that would show you step by step on the right way to do things. Good luck!
@ orchid:
I think you have overestimated me...The only thing I use the net for is either blogging or using orkut.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my blog, hope you will be a regular visitor from now on..
Ganesh You will do fine.Everything appears overwhelming at first especially if there is a deadline.
@lalitha:
thanks...are you starry nights??
//please include 5 mins prayer for me in your daily prayer. I am desperate enough to try anything at this point.//
Don't u worry dude, I will definitely pray for u and I am sure all will be fine.
Take care.
@karthik:
Thanks for your support...
Ganesh, its always panic before you start and end. Donno worry. Just be clear wat you wanna do and you will do oit. Best wishes on your project.
@priya:
Thanks very much.....for me its panic before I start, after I end and panic in the middle too...
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