I am terrified of ruining my thesis
I am at the very end now of my integrated master’s (4 year course as combined with a 3 year undergrad). I was more consistent in effort than I have ever been and, for once in my life, I am looking at submitting a few days before the deadline rather than a minute before. The problem is I have no idea how to use this time wisely or if I’ll accidentally ruin my progress by tearing it apart too much before submission. I would really appreciate your input.
I know it‘s common to feel like your writing (10,000 words) isn’t great, but I am getting increasingly anxious about it. Everyone else is still intensely writing and editing which I did a couple of weeks ago and now I feel like I’m missing something. I have printed it out, read it through for grammar and structure, made the figures show what I think is good to know (then again, I am not sure how to make it embellished).
I think a core fear is my paper is bioinformatics and evolution not molecular biology (which has all the fancy figures and complex molecular level pathways). My field has barely anything on my protein. I am primarily making inferences based on evolutionary groups and why I saw the pattern that I did (based on known differences in those species, but it doesn’t feel as technical and is mainly me forming arguments). I want to strengthen my arguments somehow, but there isn’t the literature nor words spare! I have cut words down for weeks now and it really feels fragile for editing now 😞