With the exception of finals, this semester is pretty much over. This means that I have completed all course work for my program at MIT. I had my final exam for microeconomics last Friday and will the final exam for my political economy class this coming Thursday (yes, my very last one as a student). After next week, the only thing that gets between me and degree is the thesis.
So far I have been dragging my feet with my thesis. Yes, I have the thesis problem statement and hypothesis defined. The scope of the thesis, however, was really beyond what is minimally required by a master student. No, don't get me wrong, I am more than happy to do a PhD-minus or master-plus thesis; but I am constrained by one thing: time. I still want to do a good thesis but I only have till May to complete the thesis. I was originally scheduled to complete everything by February but with the stress and workload that I have this semester this goal has proven unproductive. I simply don't have the time; but even if I did, I found it very distracting to switch between thesis work and coursework.
Fortunately, I found a new direction to completing my thesis without compromising the quality. I am loving this new novel approach. and confident of completing by mid-March while still offering new insights to the problem I am trying to solve. I don't want to divulge the details of my thesis at this point; but let's just say that it has something to do with disruptive technology, management of technology, microeconomics using the seventh generation game consoles (Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii) as a case study. Oh yeah, this new direction in my thesis work will fun. 
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