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[wolffyluna]

Welp. Just got my replacement Honours project.

I’m sure I’ll be more philosophical about it after I’ve slept on it, but right now I am like a five year old that has just had an adult with a tense smile place a plate of brussel sprouts in front of them, and is wracking their little five year old brain for the politest way to say ‘I don’t want that, I want the cake you just took away from me.’

(I mean this is a mixed metaphor because my supervisor is in no way responsible for the 'cake' being taken away. But tell that to my brain.)

([whiny voice] I'm gonna have to throw out so much backgroung research. And work on a thing that is less cool. And maybe some of it is that I know less about the new thing and so I don't know about the cool thing-- but some of it is that it is legit less Cool(TM). And because my university doesn't do half measures with confusion, apparently depending on when the university re-opens, I might have to switch back to my original project? Because this won't cause confusion, consternation and a lack of time at all.

And of course, when my supervisor was telling me about the new project, he went "So, I have some data that you could analyse to find [thing that is much more related to my original project]-- which I have already done. I just have to write the paper. But you could also use that data set to find out..." and I'm a bit >:\ at that presentation. Way to get my hopes up!)

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[wolffyluna]

The temptation to just... defer till next semester Is High. Like, it is explicitly available listed as an option. And provided a nice-case scenario for the pandemic, it's not a crazy idea? I'd get to do the project I actually wanted, and I wouldn't even be disadvantaging the other Honours students. I've had back to back to back disasters that mean I only had two days in the lab. "Let's try this again in three months time" seems incredibly reasonable.

I'll think on it. But it's tempting.