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...at least before I graduate! I finally managed to put guns to the heads of my thesis mates and made them stay overnight at my house last weekend. I tied them to the chairs with laptops in front of them so they would stay put and type away. :)

I suppose a normal group wouldn't take that long to finish a thesis (it took us all Saturday night and all of Sunday!), but then I guess it depends on how lazy everyone is feeling like. Once we were able to settle down, we began reading very slowly and adding stuff to our RRL (very slowly too!). It doesn't help that lots of scholars use deep words and run-on sentences to make themselves sound academic!

In the end, however, we persevered and managed to churn out the first draft by 6 PM of Sunday. My thesis mate passed it to our mentor this afternoon, and we're going to meet up with him on Wednesday morning. Hopefully we won't have to change too much, and that we can have our defense next week, because I'm leaving for the States on April 1...

It's a long story. My family wanted to go for several reasons. My mom and sister went first, my brother's going on the 28th, and my dad and I are leaving on April 1st. I didn't want to go because of schoolwork and finals, but my dad wouldn't go without me and so that meant I had to go too, or suffer his indirect whining for the rest of the year. Well, I do want to go too, just not at such a crucial point in my academic life! He's offered to sacrifice his vacation for me several times, but I know I'll never hear the end of it if I took that offer! So I had all my finals scheduled; good thing my other professors are understanding.

And besides that, Holy Week is really the only time (this early in the year) when we can take a vacation as a whole family. My eldest sister, who is working in Singapore, will be leaving on the 2nd of April.

Let's hope everything goes well! :)