Having gone through pregnancy (by proxy) and writing a thesis, as well as constantly being around people who are going through the thesis process, I found a number of parallels. Below is a top ten list of the most obvious, but I’m sure there are more.
10. Everyone has advice for what you should do afterwards.
9. Both are life-altering experiences.
8. Each starts off with something fun (obvious in the case of pregnancy and for non-science people, you will just have to take my word for the fact that data collection is fun) but both pregnancy and writing a thesis turn into an arduous process that you can’t wait to have finished.
7. You can’t party during either.
6. Both provoke a large amount of reading and online research.
5. There is a painful ending to pregnancy (labor and birth) and the thesis (defense).
4. Both take about 9 months and are a huge relief to have over.
3. People tend to take time off from work following each.
2. No one who has gone through either experience really tells you the whole story until you complete the process, leaving you thinking, “why didn’t you tell me this before I started?”
1. Both cause excessive snacking, weight gain, fluctuations in emotions and occasional vomiting.
8. Each starts off with something fun (obvious in the case of pregnancy and for non-science people, you will just have to take my word for the fact that data collection is fun) but both pregnancy and writing a thesis turn into an arduous process that you can’t wait to have finished.
7. You can’t party during either.
6. Both provoke a large amount of reading and online research.
5. There is a painful ending to pregnancy (labor and birth) and the thesis (defense).
4. Both take about 9 months and are a huge relief to have over.
3. People tend to take time off from work following each.
2. No one who has gone through either experience really tells you the whole story until you complete the process, leaving you thinking, “why didn’t you tell me this before I started?”
1. Both cause excessive snacking, weight gain, fluctuations in emotions and occasional vomiting.
3 comments:
1A. Your friends want to go take you our for drinks after it is all over, and you just want to go home and sleep.
uhhhhh.... yeah! and I had to do both - in rapid succession... don't you feel bad for me!!!???
She is such a cutie - love the laid back photo. you guys sleeping yet? I think we started sleeping again around 3 1/2 months - uhg.
gabs
Two hours at a time, I get before 1:00am and Megan gets after. Good times.
She always seems to sleep like that, we don't know why she keep her hands above her head. Its like she is training for the WWII era French military.
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