My thesis was due last Friday (delayed to last Monady) and I have an extension (or, rather, an I-don't-have-it-done) until today. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I'll have it done by my deadline today either. For some reason, I just haven't wanted, or been able to, write.
I think that this is due, in part, to the fact that this is my own project (rather than the one I originally started on) which I'd been thinking about for a while before I started my Honours year. As such, I don't feel any sort of obligation to work on it for any purposes other than my own gratification. While this is a good thing by some measures (it's a project that I am interested in, etc., etc.) it is very, very, bad by others (like that fact that I don't feel any particular drive to write about it).
All I know is that I'm well and truly sick of University and computer science. If Honours is a taste of research and a hint of what a Ph.D. is like, then I want nothing to do with either. This used to be fun...
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Will you keep ownership of your ideas and code?
This makes me realise I didn't mention the "ownership" from the post title. I own the project both in an intellectual property sense and an emotional sense: it is my work to do with as I see fit and it is my work inspired by my own interests. Both are good, but the latter means that I don't feel any great desire to work on this stuff for any reason but my own gratification (which results in, for example, my thesis being late).
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