Addicted to Thesis
Today marked the 25% threshold for thesis and the discovery that I am addicted to my topic. I find myself thinking about my thesis day and night, observing subtle and overt social behavior, reading every article on the subject, searching for 12-step meetings, visualizing confessions, and dreaming about humanities technological convergence.
Yet this addiction seems justified. My project will raise consciousness and encourage people to think about their technological use. I’m obsessing about a type of addiction that will soon explode into a nationwide epidemic! I must become obsessed with, and perhaps addicted to, the topic of technological addiction. The tester has become the tested, in an ironic twist of fate.
Perhaps that is what we all must do with our thesis projects; become completely obsessed with a topic and method of delivery. I’m far beyond interest and passion. My level of investment exceeds a genre and/or domain. Expertise is merely a civilized mask for my expressive and compulsory addiction to thesis.