I WROTE MY FINAL YEAR DISSERTATION IN A WEEK... and it was stressful

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  • so... i am a CLOWN and ended up writing my final year thesis / dissertation in the week before the deadline. this was genuinely the worst thing i've ever done and i hate myself for it. so enjoy :)
    I WROTE A BOOK ABOUT UNI!!! omg omg omg
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  • @jack_edwards
    @jack_edwards  4 роки тому +381

    I WROTE A BOOK ABOUT UNI!!! omg omg omg
    Pre-order on Amazon: hyperurl.co/es29rr (whatever country you're in!!)
    Pre-order on Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/the-ultimate-university-survival-guide/jack-edwards/9780008365646

    • @kingkhaatumo
      @kingkhaatumo 4 роки тому +3

      I am in similar situation as to you currently. Good luck to you. WE CAN DO IT.

    • @lenireisner5518
      @lenireisner5518 4 роки тому +1

      He's still cute though

    • @brazeiar9672
      @brazeiar9672 4 роки тому +1

      Luckily he didn't do a proper subject!

    • @deloresdu830
      @deloresdu830 4 роки тому +1

      You do have your extensions, right?

    • @alicejones4791
      @alicejones4791 4 роки тому

      Jack Edwards do you know Oliver/Ollie Jones? He is. In Hatfield

  • @katiebevan
    @katiebevan 4 роки тому +4852

    *watches as procrastination from her own dissertation*

    • @va3413
      @va3413 4 роки тому +49

      Sameee. I have 2 weeks left and I just can't

    • @LifeofBliss25
      @LifeofBliss25 4 роки тому +11

      Me too 🤦🏽‍♀️

    • @konichiuah
      @konichiuah 4 роки тому +5

      So me!!!!

    • @armanvahedi8971
      @armanvahedi8971 4 роки тому +26

      Mines due tomorrow at 6pm :)

    • @baconfilms4014
      @baconfilms4014 4 роки тому +5

      @@armanvahedi8971 Have you started??

  • @zyra5832
    @zyra5832 3 роки тому +1642

    “as time goes on, priorities change, and expectations get lower”
    no truer words has ever, ever been said

    • @yinhannasjournal
      @yinhannasjournal 3 роки тому +3

      Omg late gang!

    • @amethystjean1744
      @amethystjean1744 4 місяці тому +1

      So true. I wanted to make changes to my final research report but I got a great grade on my draft so I just made the requested changes and not the changes I would have wanted. Good enough.

  • @missfayz4523
    @missfayz4523 3 роки тому +2026

    I love that it seems no student ever rereads their works after submitting. I have written like 9 term papers, send them my profs, put them in the file with all my other papers and never opened it again. It is the pandoras box of my suffering and bad writing.

    • @laurao.pedersen7919
      @laurao.pedersen7919 3 роки тому +2

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    • @purplegecko13
      @purplegecko13 3 роки тому +149

      Reading old papers is an adventure. I reread my undergraduate thesis yesterday and if you’d blacked out the author’s name I wouldn’t have known that I wrote it.

    • @melisalovin5052
      @melisalovin5052 3 роки тому +31

      I don’t even read what I put on paper in exams

    • @sanpellegrinolimonata
      @sanpellegrinolimonata 3 роки тому +84

      I re-read some of my first year essays and i can now see that my markers were really generous lol, at the time i thought i was an unrecognised genius😭

    • @missfayz4523
      @missfayz4523 3 роки тому +12

      @@purplegecko13 I sometimes don't even remember the title of my works😂 it is weird because I put lots of work into some of them

  • @ninnisto
    @ninnisto 4 роки тому +2341

    5:33 the AUDACITY he has to say that sunday is the day of rest, while he still has to write an entire dissertation 😭 i am screaming

    • @melitajanicerodrigues8290
      @melitajanicerodrigues8290 4 роки тому +143

      I KNOW RIGHT, I literally yelled at my screen telling him to get back to work 😭😭😭

    • @gwyn7327
      @gwyn7327 3 роки тому +82

      i TOTALLY get him tho

    • @Paola-uk9yo
      @Paola-uk9yo 3 роки тому +37

      Stop I would do that 😩

    • @spbspb2413
      @spbspb2413 2 роки тому +34

      He has a point, you can't start working on a day of rest, a man has to live by a code.

    • @anmolgandhi9835
      @anmolgandhi9835 2 роки тому +2

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @katiemartin-dixon4614
    @katiemartin-dixon4614 4 роки тому +3410

    From - "imagine if this gets published"
    To- "Imagine if i finish it in time"
    OMG LITERALLY ME!!!

  • @sarahscott409
    @sarahscott409 4 роки тому +3080

    "I had been referring to two characters, who's names are Jim and George, as Fred and George... as in... the WEASLEY TWINS" when I tell you I CHOKED

    • @jack_edwards
      @jack_edwards  4 роки тому +342

      imagine being THAT DUMB i swear to god

    • @libertysuzanne9199
      @libertysuzanne9199 4 роки тому +33

      i’ve been crying laughing for 5 minutes....

    • @sarahj2106
      @sarahj2106 4 роки тому +7

      No like I have never cried laughing like this I can’t cope

    • @Joseph-nr9dj
      @Joseph-nr9dj 4 роки тому +1

      @@jack_edwards gurlll

  • @Mariadelmar____
    @Mariadelmar____ 4 роки тому +1885

    This is exactly the way I work too: plan, plan, overplan, re-plan, then procrastinate (but sort of still working it out and figuring things out in my mind), procrastinate, panic, start because there's no more time, doing a good chunk and feeling somewhat confident, hating it, starting again and realizing this is going to be harder than anticipated, work, work, be weirdly focused and extremely dedicated, more work...almost procrastinate again to finish it up...AND DONE!

    • @adviceologie
      @adviceologie 4 роки тому +45

      Mariadel you’ve explained it so well! This is exactly how I work ! I have a 100 pages to write by the 30th of June and I have planned everything, read scientific articles, organized all the sources , figure things out in my mind every hour of the day but boy what a hassle it is to get myself to write, so far I wrote an intro of 2 pages and a half😂😭

    • @tarzname
      @tarzname 4 роки тому +5

      Omg this is the literal perfect process of what I do (right now)

    • @bouleaneige2077
      @bouleaneige2077 4 роки тому +1

      Litteraly me

    • @richygambs321
      @richygambs321 4 роки тому +14

      Very true Maradiel you perfectly re-produced what difficulties I went through. Not to mention the tremendous difficulty of actaully typing out your thesis/essay in a clear strucutred way. In your head it might look detailed and structured but when you see it pen on paper (or word document) it ends up being half the length you anticipated and looks like it was written by a 10 year old. And then you hate yourself because you cannot write well compared to others, feel sad, go on a self hate and pity party, think you will end up homeless, procrastinate, panic some more, then force yourself to start again.

    • @Sayoi95
      @Sayoi95 3 роки тому +5

      This is literally me rn, I have multiple detailed plans, that I've been constantly changing in the past weeks, then I procrastinate thinking I deserve a break (lol), but when I finally write my thoughts down and re-read, oh boy. It's a scraping party, my thesis I mean. Going mental🤡

  • @karin8378
    @karin8378 4 роки тому +1785

    ”It’s a marathon not a sprint” This is probably the literal definition if a sprint

  • @Xboxandiphone
    @Xboxandiphone 4 роки тому +4052

    You're not a student if you don't leave your assignments till it's due date
    EDIT: jeez how's this got so many likes

    • @jack_edwards
      @jack_edwards  4 роки тому +722

      due today means do today !

    • @ylpeacelove
      @ylpeacelove 4 роки тому +5

      😱😱😱so true...

    • @zionw1837
      @zionw1837 4 роки тому +3

      So true

    • @hanemaru95
      @hanemaru95 4 роки тому +5

      Suliman shah I just did my draft disso in 3 days AHAHAHAHA imma biomed student 😂

    • @ipsitaparida4471
      @ipsitaparida4471 4 роки тому +2

      Jack Edwards
      yesss that’s motivating 😁😁

  • @nadz6785
    @nadz6785 4 роки тому +2218

    When he said, "I'm dumb. I'm stupid. I'm a fool.", my procrastinating self felt that.

  • @22laaura
    @22laaura 3 роки тому +571

    How did I just watch a random guy writting his dissertation for 20 mins instead of writing my own....

  • @Laayba
    @Laayba 3 роки тому +477

    'it is april, and im a fool' AND I AM DED 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭

  • @freyafabulous3323
    @freyafabulous3323 4 роки тому +2509

    This comment section with all the other fellow idiots and clowns is literally so uplifting. I always thought I am the only person on the planet like this. 😂

    • @hellothere8812
      @hellothere8812 3 роки тому +21

      Of course not don’t be ridiculous

    • @shriyan.r5844
      @shriyan.r5844 3 роки тому +14

      I'm literally that person who reads like 4 hrs before their mid terms so don't worry 😂

    • @bennetttan8535
      @bennetttan8535 Рік тому +3

      I don't feel like shooting myself in the head anymore thank you

  • @YoungWorksStudio
    @YoungWorksStudio 4 роки тому +1744

    i wrote 70% of my year-long graduate degree thesis in two weeks. we eat stress for breakfast.

  • @LEVINATOR
    @LEVINATOR 4 роки тому +2265

    Bruh, i feel you. I did mine one day before the deadline, hell of a ride

    • @UrbanMatts
      @UrbanMatts 3 роки тому +66

      how was that grade

    • @MasterJTLS
      @MasterJTLS 3 роки тому +73

      Bloody hell 😂😂 Did you pass?

    • @LEVINATOR
      @LEVINATOR 3 роки тому +204

      @@MasterJTLSsurprisingly i did

    • @Oneaverageboi
      @Oneaverageboi 3 роки тому +105

      how tf did you do it

    • @charlotte8659
      @charlotte8659 3 роки тому +97

      You wrote your dissertation in a day?? ☠️

  • @harrietunger
    @harrietunger 4 роки тому +884

    I finished my dissertation yesterday, after writing it in less than 10 days, I can relate so much to this mindset hahaha
    The weirdest part was towards the end; the thesis was due at 12pm, and I had progressed so well that I was so chilled out the night before and got over-confident. Then, half-way through the night when I realised that putting the words into the TEMPLATE takes freakin ages - I lost all sense of chill. Fast forward to 11.50am the next day after an all-nighter and I still needed to fix one paragraph, but just submitted it regardless. BUT HOLD ON because I then realised that, because I'm in my home country (due to COVID), I had an EXTRA HOUR from the time difference. not gonna lie, that time difference literally saved my ass :D sorry this was a long story but basically thank the lord for time difference

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    • @spiritualsnail1584
      @spiritualsnail1584 3 роки тому +23

      You're not alone I exploited Covid too to submit work a few minutes late after tryharding for an entire night :)

    • @ollieanabella264
      @ollieanabella264 2 роки тому +17

      Imagine if it had been the other way aroundand the time difference took an hour from u instead og adding 1

    • @harrietunger
      @harrietunger 2 роки тому +7

      @@ollieanabella264 true! I was lucky I guess haha

  • @libbyhargreaves6265
    @libbyhargreaves6265 4 роки тому +2020

    The one dislike is his professor

    • @MyLifeIsTravel
      @MyLifeIsTravel 4 роки тому +6

      Libby Hargreaves 😂😂😂

    • @jack_edwards
      @jack_edwards  4 роки тому +184

      loooooooooooooool

    • @Martin-x22
      @Martin-x22 4 роки тому +14

      the beard is cool btw you should keep it

    • @vanillacherub6847
      @vanillacherub6847 4 роки тому +7

      @@jack_edwards laugh out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out loud

    • @summerscoming123
      @summerscoming123 4 роки тому

      Lol!

  • @user-fh2cp6iu4g
    @user-fh2cp6iu4g 4 роки тому +1308

    "Wait... is it Thursday today?
    [checks phone]
    [relieved sigh]
    OH MY GOD, IT'S WEDNESDAY.
    [DEEP EXHALE]: *JESUS*
    this was ME today i swear

    • @jack_edwards
      @jack_edwards  4 роки тому +117

      oh my god *THE STRESS*

    • @sammie4819
      @sammie4819 4 роки тому +15

      @@jack_edwards i cannot count how many times I've thought it was the day after and literally my heart just goes up 1234560000 beats

    • @luoiv7682
      @luoiv7682 3 роки тому +1

      Well it was better than me mistaking a Thursday as a Friday
      TWICE IN THE SAME DAY WHEN I HAD AN EXAM DUE

  • @erica4060
    @erica4060 3 роки тому +533

    A year ago I thought it was just stupid to leave a whole diss last minute. A year later here I am, watching this video again and procrastinating as if I didn't have a dissertation due in a month.
    I'm a clown, I know.

    • @r.t.c1881
      @r.t.c1881 3 роки тому +4

      I feel you

    • @tehhaoze1216
      @tehhaoze1216 3 роки тому +2

      You’re not alone

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      @laurao.pedersen7919 3 роки тому

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    • @unebellepatience1197
      @unebellepatience1197 3 роки тому +19

      This is literally me. Now its due in a week and i still havent done it. I was speaking to this girl in third year last year and it was march and she hadnt started yet and i was like omg couldnt be me. Well guess what ITS ME 😭

    • @bethanpalmer3295
      @bethanpalmer3295 3 роки тому

      You’re not alone!!

  • @lisaleroy3937
    @lisaleroy3937 3 роки тому +320

    Me watching this one year ago: I will never let this happen to me..
    Me now: writing my dissertation one week before the deadline 🤦🏻‍♀️

  • @LouisaH18
    @LouisaH18 4 роки тому +652

    'to conclude, i'm a clown' i could not relate more.

  • @0SiriuslyPadfoot0
    @0SiriuslyPadfoot0 4 роки тому +707

    This was slightly anxiety-inducing for me and I am *graduated* lmao

  • @nina.a15
    @nina.a15 4 роки тому +333

    *thesis due in a week* jack : " sunday is rest day !"

  • @richap6732
    @richap6732 4 роки тому +330

    When I was doing my dissertation I read through it multiple times. I eventually resorted to putting it through google translate (English), so I could hear it read to me and that helped me SO MUCH

    • @krelshell4
      @krelshell4 3 роки тому +5

      Thanks for the tip!

    • @CooleenBooks
      @CooleenBooks 3 роки тому +22

      The office 365 has that feature now and I also sometimes use the app Natural Reader which is so helpful cause I'm sometimes too tired to read

    • @mohima1367
      @mohima1367 3 роки тому +1

      Yh it's a good tip

    • @yinhannasjournal
      @yinhannasjournal 3 роки тому +3

      Wait that is genius-
      I’m a translator how did I not think of that? 💀✋🏻

  • @loopywithoutlucozade
    @loopywithoutlucozade 4 роки тому +493

    at least you didn't have to print and bind it on top of this stress! I remember being in a billy b printer queue and chatting to a random guy behind me who casually said his diss was due in 30 mins, I almost pushed him in front of me to print his first I was so stressed for that stranger

    • @viviandarkbloom23
      @viviandarkbloom23 4 роки тому +6

      nataliadagger omg

    • @SingingSuperstar28
      @SingingSuperstar28 4 роки тому +39

      I wish I had that random guy's chill. I would have been on the verge of a breakdown by then

    • @spectacularbear
      @spectacularbear 3 роки тому +44

      @@SingingSuperstar28 he already had his breakdown and has the mental clarity you can only gain when you are truly screwed

    • @SingingSuperstar28
      @SingingSuperstar28 3 роки тому +1

      @@spectacularbear good point

  • @xhebax9004
    @xhebax9004 4 роки тому +844

    I have so many deadlines and exams during this week, so this will be highly motivational.

    • @joanthechin
      @joanthechin 4 роки тому +13

      all the best!! :)

    • @xhebax9004
      @xhebax9004 4 роки тому +4

      @@joanthechin Thanks, best wishes for you too 💖

    • @angieatedusson2605
      @angieatedusson2605 4 роки тому

      hey X how did it go?

    • @UrbanMatts
      @UrbanMatts 3 роки тому +1

      Angie at Edusson he jumped

    • @xhebax9004
      @xhebax9004 3 роки тому

      @@angieatedusson2605 I graduated after finishing those exams 🙌, and I am working as a teacher now.

  • @bluie2889
    @bluie2889 3 роки тому +98

    his eyes being bigger with his little glasses is the cutest thing i've ever seen

  • @AlexAntohe
    @AlexAntohe 2 роки тому +145

    I started writing my dissertation conclusion with 20 minutes left to go. I was already on an all-nighter having worked on my two other chapters lol. The clock was ticking, my conclusion was going nowhere, I was under the required word limit but I had to take action. With five minutes left to go, I said alright, half of the page of a conclusion is enough, I need to focus on cleaning things up. Check for dead white spaces, quickly zoom out to see how it looks, what needs tweaking that kind of stuff, all the while feverishly looking at the bottom right cornered time. Come one, come on, come on, send it as it is already! My mind and increasingly fast-beating heart were suggesting. But no, I still have time to double-check. I entered the final minute, I knew it would come to this. I could only submit by 11:59:59...At 11:59:00 I started mentally counting but with a beat faster so I am still ahead of the clock. Okay, let's upload this bad boy (I had the upload page ready I only needed to select the file and submit it). I select the pdf, hit submit - SESSION TIMED OUT, PLEASE LOGIN AGAIN. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU**K, I WAS STILL COUNTING! 11:59:30 in my head, the heart was beating like crazy, my hands instantly lost 80% of their speediness, everything was moving in slow motion, I was still counting. I logged back in, no mistake could be made. I click on browse, it opens my desktop, I have no clue where the latest saved document went, there is no time for browsing. CTRL+TAB instantly and I open the window containing my document. I click and hold it, CTRL+TAB back to the upload page, I release it on the upload area, check the 'I agree' box and hit SUBMIT. The circular 'please wait' thingy is moving. BOOM...... Thank you for your submission, TIme - 11:59:59. I was the happiest man alive lol.

    • @cjsheu
      @cjsheu Рік тому +40

      my heart is racing from just reading that

    • @trappart9209
      @trappart9209 Рік тому +13

      Lmao this was fkn thriller

    • @aanyavashist3604
      @aanyavashist3604 9 місяців тому +7

      this gave me more anxiety than my project due tmw ngl

  • @miawestrap8687
    @miawestrap8687 4 роки тому +231

    Jack with his glasses on 👁👁

  • @iovlogs
    @iovlogs 4 роки тому +377

    Jack: 'I'm social distancing from that library!'
    Me: *realising this was me way before quarantine...*

  • @Pralinette09
    @Pralinette09 4 роки тому +533

    "When i first starting researching for my dissertation i was like imagine if it get published, now i'm like, imagine if i finish this" hahahah I can relate so much hahah first i was like "yeah imagine if i get a distinction for it, now i'm like, imagine if i passed it" hahahah

    • @schnioula
      @schnioula 3 роки тому +2

      😁

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    • @andersongodoy1927
      @andersongodoy1927 11 місяців тому +2

      Reading this, made me feel I’m not the only one in this situation. But I need still to deliver it.

  • @sabrinae.6361
    @sabrinae.6361 3 роки тому +53

    “Me submitting my dissertation”
    *throws garbage in trash can*
    🤣

  • @freyafabulous3323
    @freyafabulous3323 4 роки тому +471

    This video is literally MADE FOR ME. I have to finish a 15-page essay TODAY until midnight. 🙊
    Edit: it is now 00:03am . I have submitted my essay at 23:54pm. 😂😂 I feel so relieved.

    • @leahsophia
      @leahsophia 4 роки тому +10

      freyafabulous hope you did well

    • @alb0zfinest
      @alb0zfinest 4 роки тому +7

      leahsophia at that time frame? Doubt it. If she didn’t start from scratch, possibly, otherwise no. She’s lucky anyhow, the professor is going to be far more lenient because he/she doesn’t want to spend this quarantine time closely grading. Probably will just skim over it.

    • @juanpenajimenez7274
      @juanpenajimenez7274 4 роки тому +5

      This was me 2 days ago and it really does feel amazing to be on the other side😭

    • @othalashelton854
      @othalashelton854 4 роки тому +8

      If you don’t submit 2 minutes before the deadline, are you even a student? 😂

    • @taliyahc2452
      @taliyahc2452 3 роки тому +1

      alb0zfinest not gonna lie I have done a 14 page paper in a day. I had all the research prepared, but I got up at 7 AM and worked on it for 16 hours straight. In the end it was 18 pages with the 30 sources I had for it. To be fair to myself my professor had me throw out my old paper and do that one on a new topic during the last 2 weeks of the semester.

  • @sophiewright7776
    @sophiewright7776 4 роки тому +210

    moral of the story: do not try this at home

  • @Zoe-iz1ir
    @Zoe-iz1ir Рік тому +52

    Am I coming back to this video each time I desperately have to finish a paper and want to motivate myself? Yes. Do I learn from it? Absolutely not😭😭😭

  • @darby6235
    @darby6235 3 роки тому +85

    When I was *basically writing my dissertation in a week* all I did was rewatch this video over and over to feel better about my situation and gain motivation to finish and work hard bc I just wanted it over it with so badly. Thanks Jack:)

  • @skyla9733
    @skyla9733 4 роки тому +147

    " I was behind on being behind "
    A true king 👏👏

  • @aimeelil9538
    @aimeelil9538 4 роки тому +325

    jack edwards being a wreck for 17 minutes and 15 seconds ✌🏻

    • @jack_edwards
      @jack_edwards  4 роки тому +47

      this is definitely an alternative title

    • @aimeelil9538
      @aimeelil9538 4 роки тому +3

      Jack Edwards social distancing and lockdown did wonders for your diss 😂

  • @elizabeththornton8982
    @elizabeththornton8982 3 роки тому +155

    This literally popped up in my recommendations while I’m writing three 2000 word essays in one night 👍🏻

  • @andratanasoiu9433
    @andratanasoiu9433 4 роки тому +70

    "I am dumb, I am stupid, I'm a fool"
    I had the same epiphany so many times this school year

  • @itssangiex
    @itssangiex 4 роки тому +704

    Am I the only person who is here watching but should be doing my own thesis instead? 😂

  • @embaggins
    @embaggins 4 роки тому +505

    i did exactly the same thing as you with my dissertation lmao. i planned it all out, wrote 3k words of the initial literature review, and then when i spoke to my tutor in january (it was due in april) he basically said i needed to redo the question. so i try to figure out what i'm doing next. what work can i actually keep from what i've done so far? i do my focus group research in february. it all feels like it's going according to plan. i have time, don't i? cut to two weeks before the due date, i'm down to 1k/10k words, and i still have another 3k assignment due in before the dissertation (both of which i have not begun). it got to the final week. 7 days left. i slept for 6 hours during that entire time. i am not lying. i would have a 30-45 minute nap at 6am or there abouts. it was, quite frankly, *awful* . but i tell you what. after the final all nighter in the library? on the due date? i submitted it online at 08:45am, and then i took that motherfucker to Staples to get it printed at 09:30am. and whilst it was printing, i went to mcdonalds across the road. and that sausage and egg mcmuffin was the best mcmuffin i have ever had in my entire life. it tasted of freedom. it tasted of the sweet sweet sleep that i knew i would have later that day. it tasted of 10k words of utter bullshit but i somehow got 67% anyway and a First in my overall degree. worth it? i'll let you decide.

    • @Hopuxx
      @Hopuxx 4 роки тому +45

      I'm inspired

    • @embaggins
      @embaggins 4 роки тому +41

      @@Hopuxx pls don't do this to urself i _implore_ you 😂😂

    • @Hopuxx
      @Hopuxx 4 роки тому +15

      @@embaggins I have 17 days left to write my entire dissertation and now I'm stressing out even more oh god 😭😭😭

    • @embaggins
      @embaggins 4 роки тому +25

      @@Hopuxx YOU'VE GOT THIS! honestly tho you never think you can do it but somehow LIFE FINDS A WAY!! i was convinced i wasn't gonna get it done, and as someone who functions very poorly on no sleep, i still managed it somehow. and that is also as someone who writes academic papers very slowly. a lot of my friends could do a single 3k assignment in a day or less - that shit would take me a week in most cases. obvs the dissertation was a special case lol as i hardly stopped working that entire time, but i did it and it was such a big sigh of relief after. just think, in 17 days you don't have to even think about it any more, it'll be done and dusted. you've got this, you can do ittttt!

    • @BananeKiwi199
      @BananeKiwi199 4 роки тому +12

      6h in 7 days. I seriously can’t imagine that. I would be soooo unproductive at some point and fall asleep at my desk lol. I do pull all nighters right before exams. But I don’t think I could do that for 7 days in a row.

  • @cmykimberly
    @cmykimberly 4 роки тому +147

    Jack without glasses: o_o
    Jack with glasses O_O

  • @MagdaRybak2009
    @MagdaRybak2009 3 роки тому +49

    I wrote my dissertation (150 pages) in 11 days. I was in the exact position as you, done all the research, was very organized, had all the thoughts in my head and just needed to put everything on paper. It was chaotic and stressful but also kind do weirdly fun and satisfying?! I relate so much with this video!! :) Very fun!

  • @theliamcooke
    @theliamcooke 4 роки тому +64

    1st year - Wow I'm going to get a 1st its going to be amazing
    2nd year - Okay well a 2:1 is fine
    3rd year - Well if a pass it will be a miracle

  • @evegates7005
    @evegates7005 4 роки тому +209

    “On tonight’s programme ladies and gentleman we have something that’s gonna make you SICK” ... (Covid-19 has entered the chat)

  • @haleemabibi4123
    @haleemabibi4123 3 роки тому +44

    “I’m behind on being behind” I felt that! me after I didn’t start planning my disso at the begging of feb 😅😅😅😩😩😩

  • @richietk6995
    @richietk6995 4 роки тому +198

    "it's a marathon not a sprint"
    Dude you're literally in the last 100 meters of the London marathon were you are meant to be sprinting

  • @eharri369
    @eharri369 4 роки тому +170

    The whole idea of being in this situation makes me want to have an anxiety attack

    • @alb0zfinest
      @alb0zfinest 4 роки тому +3

      eharri I spent 90% of my time in college doing this. My hair started receding because of it lmao.

    • @mcgonagallerys
      @mcgonagallerys 3 роки тому

      @@alb0zfinest same, I'm in second year of uni and I've been losing my hair too and I feel I've also gotten premature wrinkles from the stress

  • @sarahk.989
    @sarahk.989 4 роки тому +235

    okay jack here is the thing (fellow absolute idiot):my final year law dissertation (30 PAGES!?) is due on monday. We were given the option to not hand it in an re do it in the summer, so I had given up at this point (was at a similar stage as you in my work), because it counts toward my final grade (and I did not want to screw myself over). But u have given me the motivation to not toss all my work in the trash so I will give it a proper try.

    • @Nora-fq8lp
      @Nora-fq8lp 4 роки тому +9

      Good luck!!! I'm working on a paper at the moment and then it's time for me dissertation as well. Not looking forward to it 🙃

    • @chrishingley3589
      @chrishingley3589 4 роки тому +6

      Good luck! You can do it. I wrote my MFA thesis in a four day stretch, but it was a screenplay. If you hand it in over the summer, will they adjust your final grade?

    • @sarahk.989
      @sarahk.989 4 роки тому +4

      Chris Hingley thank you!!! No they will not if I hand it in over the summer, but due to Covid they will be more lenient now with grading right now...who knows if professors actually listen to this though :D

    • @sarahk.989
      @sarahk.989 4 роки тому

      Nora thank you!! good luck to you too!

    • @chrishingley3589
      @chrishingley3589 4 роки тому

      @@sarahk.989 What is your dissertation on?

  • @lotte4612
    @lotte4612 3 роки тому +37

    UA-cam recommended this to me at the exact time where I only have a week left until my dissertation deadline and I still have TONS to write. And here I am watching this instead of writing...

  • @liudmila.olegovna
    @liudmila.olegovna 3 роки тому +94

    So you mean a week is NOT a usual amount of time that is supposed to be spent on writing a thesis?🤭

  • @Misseggy24
    @Misseggy24 4 роки тому +70

    I just can’t get over how big Jack’s eyes look when he’s wearing his glasses. He looks like a cartoon character (but in a good way!)

  • @tarzname
    @tarzname 4 роки тому +81

    The separate document is soooo relatable. I always have an empty document open next to my document to write pieces of text in there instead of my actual paper. It makes no sense but it feels way better.

  • @JustPeppermintTea
    @JustPeppermintTea 3 роки тому +68

    I feel this video so much! I was doing research for my bachelor thesis for soo long that at some point I was soo afraid to actually write words. It became so stressful that I had to get professional help, because I became sooo anxious of this task. At the end I finished the whole thesis in 2 Weeks and also received a great grade! But it was an awfully stressful time in my life.

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    • @novpapazulu9392
      @novpapazulu9392 Рік тому +1

      Hi, this resonates a lot with me at the moment. Could I get into contact with you to ask about how you navigated it?

  • @ninakoch1799
    @ninakoch1799 8 місяців тому +10

    Jack. I don‘t know you, and I probably won‘t ever get the chance to thank you. But I just want to say: you have single-handedly saved my life. I had 9 months to write my dissertation. I started off great with writing interviews, conducting them, transcribing them, going through the data and analysing it, plotting graphs etc. But I just could not bring myself to start writing. So I put it off. For 8 months and 2.5 weeks. And then it hit me: I have 1.5 weeks left, 0 literature read, and 0 words written. And I cried. I thought about hiring a ghostwriter (I could never), re-taking my thesis year, or just straight up sinking into the earth and dying. But then I openend UA-cam instead and typed „writing your thesis in one week“, and I found the absolute masterpiece that is this video. I saved it to my phone and every time I wanted to cry or give up I watched it and it gave me hope that I could finish this. And I did. I just got my grade and I can‘t believe it, I actually got a good grade, placing in the top 20% of students. I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. No other person in my life was able to help me as much as you did with this video. Truly a gem. Thank you, thank you, thank you from Switzerland.
    And if you‘re reading this and have a thesis to finish: you can do it. But it‘s really, really hard. And you must absolutely push through and remember that a mediocre thesis is better than an unfinished one. Don‘t waste time trying to get it perfect! You‘ve got this!!! In 1.5 weeks I read 25 papers and wrote my whole thesis, start to finish, 15‘000 words. I did not sleep the last 40hours before the submission because I had to format everything, go through the sources, write the abstract in both English and German, get everything printed etc. But I submitted it, 2hours before deadline, and I have now successfully graduated!!

    • @ZoetropeTony
      @ZoetropeTony 28 днів тому

      This is absolutely amazing, I’m proud of you stranger! :)

  • @greenlikelemons
    @greenlikelemons 4 роки тому +67

    Because I would have wanted this advice as an undergrad: please use a reference software like Zotero! You will be able to cite as you go, they do the bibliography for you, and you don't have to spend hours going back putting them in! If you write a lot of papers it's so worth it!

    • @spacegirl3600
      @spacegirl3600 2 роки тому

      Thank you ☺️

    • @aminmarkets8195
      @aminmarkets8195 2 роки тому

      Thanks!

    • @tryingmybest206
      @tryingmybest206 2 роки тому +1

      I just use word references

    • @tomatochemist
      @tomatochemist 2 роки тому +2

      Zotero + Latex has given back hundreds of hours of my life I’d have wasted doing references by hand

  • @oliviar7943
    @oliviar7943 4 роки тому +83

    what uni also taught me during the years when you have a dissertation of 12000 words : these 12000 words don't need to be good, they just need to be done

  • @maiawilson2642
    @maiawilson2642 3 роки тому +20

    I literally just did this to myself. Wrote my 85 page thesis in 8 hellish days (25,000-ish words). There was three day window in there where I never saw the Sun and genuinely could not remember what day it was after the third day of writing. What a ride!

  • @JustSayin24
    @JustSayin24 4 роки тому +91

    Two videos were listed on my recommendations: this one, and another.
    "I WROTE MY FINAL YEAR DISSERTATION IN THE WEEK BEFORE THE DEADLINE"
    "oxford university rejected my masters application"
    Thanks for the laugh, UA-cam.

  • @SeanMacadelic
    @SeanMacadelic 3 роки тому +34

    One of the most relieving feeling is when you think it’s a day later than it actually is, and then you realize, you just gained an entire day!

    • @thenevermer
      @thenevermer 3 роки тому +5

      I lie to myself and put my due dates in my calendar one day before the actual date. Just so I submit it early

    • @spacegirl3600
      @spacegirl3600 2 роки тому +2

      @@thenevermer that's so smart I'm going to start to do that thx

  • @lauramccullagh980
    @lauramccullagh980 3 роки тому +33

    ooof this brought back MEMORIES. being awake for 72 hours straight to finish three different final essays that i had left ALL until the last moment was a damn trip to say the least, and im sure took at least a week off of my life, but we're here, we're queer, and we're starting our career.

  • @LP-mi6cr
    @LP-mi6cr 3 роки тому +28

    I'm less than 10 pages away from finishing my final thesis and I can tell y'all this: planning is a damn trap when you don't have enough time to begin with. Planning has this kind of addictive side to it, if you spend an entire day just planning what to do instead of actually doing shit at the end you feel kind of satisfied and accomplished, only to realize (probably at night, more frequently the day after) that you wasted an entire day worth of work doing nothing, because what's even the point of planning things in such detail when you only have a week to do everything. A general outline is necessary of course, but getting lost in useless details is also pretty easy (especially if you're a lazy perfectionist lol). What am I doing here instead of finishing my thesis, you might ask. Fair point. I'll go back to it 👌

  • @LiveLaughLoveDayo
    @LiveLaughLoveDayo 4 роки тому +55

    "It's kinda funny...actually nothing about this is funny" Me narrating my life

  • @wg0016
    @wg0016 4 роки тому +121

    Dissertation is due in a week
    Me: 😱
    Jack: spends time making a UA-cam video

  • @tiyaaji2604
    @tiyaaji2604 Рік тому +2

    i keep coming back to this video (especially in reflecting on completing my own dissertation) and i related to your struggle so much...
    i guess this keeps me reassured that i ain't the only one who wrote their diss in the one week before the deadline.

  • @LindieBotes
    @LindieBotes 4 роки тому +187

    3:07 THIS THIS THIS

  • @isabelle-cq1kd
    @isabelle-cq1kd 4 роки тому +89

    I realised literally 30 minutes ago that my dissertation proposal is due on Tuesday (six days!) and I hadn't made a plan or started writing yet so this... very motivational/applicable.

    • @pickles4742
      @pickles4742 4 роки тому +15

      BROOOOO, YOU HAVENT MADE A PLAN? I'm serious rooting for you

    • @isabelle-cq1kd
      @isabelle-cq1kd 4 роки тому +5

      @@pickles4742 thankyou! its just 2000 words as its the proposal so should be alright (i have a plan now :))

    • @pickles4742
      @pickles4742 4 роки тому +6

      @@isabelle-cq1kd yes girl!! Go you!! Wishing you well with it. You got this!

    • @katietraeger7902
      @katietraeger7902 4 роки тому +3

      good luck! 🍀

    • @pickles4742
      @pickles4742 4 роки тому +1

      Do you have an update? Did you finish in time?

  • @indyisthebestcat
    @indyisthebestcat 4 роки тому +54

    the fact I am waiting for this video even though I am in lower sixth and it has no relevance to me lol

  • @lbb2433
    @lbb2433 4 роки тому +15

    After finishing my dissertation research, I realised my study was really weak, so I changed the title and had to complete all new research and write my dissertation in 3 weeks. Many late nights and early starts later, I did it. It was the most stressful period of my life, I came out with 75% and received a first class degree :)

  • @irenelim3165
    @irenelim3165 2 роки тому +17

    hi jack, i just wanna tell you that i've watched this video of yours a few months before my dissertation deadline, just so to scare and warn myself to not go through the same process as you did.
    a few months later, a week before my dissertation deadline, i changed up my entire thesis statement and wrote it entirely from scratch.
    clearly i was a clown (still am) and it was hell.
    but anyways, thanks for the video, i graduated, somehow.

  • @bushraabdulkhaliq3909
    @bushraabdulkhaliq3909 4 роки тому +50

    “To conclude.. I’m a clown” 😂😂

  • @samanthablackwood1763
    @samanthablackwood1763 4 роки тому +43

    When you said “I find it so hard to work at home” I felt that 😔

  • @katalla7794
    @katalla7794 3 роки тому +8

    This is my favourite video, I have watched it multiple times lol. My undergrad thesis is due in less than two months and this is my primary source of motivation

  • @DavidKynan
    @DavidKynan 3 роки тому +3

    I’m writing my thesis and THANK YOU for your organization tips! Collecting quotes and sources in Excel is super helpful!

  • @sophiaanderson9640
    @sophiaanderson9640 4 роки тому +57

    A friend of mine actually handed in an entire term paper that referred to Edward Gibbon as John Gibbon lmao

  • @jonasfranzen6493
    @jonasfranzen6493 4 роки тому +72

    I had to write a 25.000 word dissertation in my final year! Took me 1.5 years of reading and research, but it was worth it! I wrote about Harry Potter trough the perspective of the french discourse analysis.

    • @chrishingley3589
      @chrishingley3589 4 роки тому +14

      Am I a total nerd if I say I kind of want to read your dissertation?

    • @inspiredby-sx7wy
      @inspiredby-sx7wy 4 роки тому

      @@chrishingley3589 I am writing something simliar for my thesis right now, but unfortunately in german :/

    • @jonasfranzen6493
      @jonasfranzen6493 4 роки тому

      @@chrishingley3589 Well, I'll send you the file if you want, but it's in Portuguese. I'm from Brazil, so...

    • @jonasfranzen6493
      @jonasfranzen6493 4 роки тому +34

      OMG, my teacher said that my diss it's going to be published! He's organizing a book about discourse analysis and he wants my text in it.

    • @chrishingley3589
      @chrishingley3589 4 роки тому +3

      @@jonasfranzen6493 Congratulations! Parabéns!

  • @sksk270
    @sksk270 4 роки тому

    Hope you'll keep sharing your vlogs,Jack! To be honest, I sometimes keep student vlogs on as my go to soundbyte for whenever I really need the boost to get productive myself. Thanks for sharing your world!

  • @arabellat5133
    @arabellat5133 4 роки тому

    This is so relatable. I’ll plan my essays thoroughly and then wait until right before the deadline to actually write it out. Also, this has so many helpful tips, like printing out your essay to edit by hand.

  • @agnieszkarekawek4414
    @agnieszkarekawek4414 4 роки тому +6

    congratulations! I can only imagine how stressful and horrible of an experience this must’ve been, so proud of you though❤️

  • @gwyn7327
    @gwyn7327 3 роки тому +24

    one thing i learned from this video is even if i dont feel like writing yet, it’s important to plan out everything as soon as possible so your future self can be less stressed

  • @charlysydow5647
    @charlysydow5647 3 роки тому +19

    "Even my dog has left me." Is a mood 🙃

  • @kasiapisarska8231
    @kasiapisarska8231 4 роки тому +1

    I love your channel man, you're saving my uni life, shame I've not discovered it earlier. Bought your book, can't wait for it to come out :D. Can't believe it's so cheap! good luck!

  • @Spifey
    @Spifey 4 роки тому +234

    I did the same and it was the worst week of my life

    • @Acquittal
      @Acquittal 3 роки тому +1

      🤔 you seem to have a thing for study channels??

    • @Abii_fornoreason
      @Abii_fornoreason 3 роки тому +1

      Strange to find you here

  • @saravuckovic5817
    @saravuckovic5817 4 роки тому +20

    This is an Eve Cornwell level of chaotic crunch time study vlog, and I'm LIVING for it.

  • @jailene3107
    @jailene3107 4 роки тому +1

    I don't have anything I have to speed-write for now, but these kind of videos are super motivational for me and keep me from procrastinating bc I absorb the stress and anxiety through the screen

  • @SAM-wd5wt
    @SAM-wd5wt 4 роки тому +1

    How is it possible that I haven't come across your channel earlier? I RELATE so much with this video oml.

  • @Yuna_David
    @Yuna_David 4 роки тому +23

    Instead of writing my own essay I watch you writing your essay. I’m helpless

  • @tjfSIM
    @tjfSIM 3 роки тому +8

    I know this feeling very well - somehow there is nothing worse. The self doubt, the hope, the despair, the seemingly insurmountable task, the fear, the joy, the hallucinations from lack of sleep... I’ve been writing these things for decades and I still leave them to the last minute 😂

  • @janak6534
    @janak6534 10 місяців тому

    I watched this video too many times. There is something so relatable, stress-inducing and yet satisfying about seeing you smash it at the last minute.

  • @cdom2001
    @cdom2001 3 місяці тому +2

    Currently in my final year and this video lives rent-free in my head. If jack can write he's dissertation in a week, I'm going to get through mine in two months

  • @emmajane7764
    @emmajane7764 4 роки тому +4

    I needed this video. I was panicking about the 3 coursework pieces i have due in 4-5 weeks which add up to about 9000 words, so knowing I have 3000 words less to do and 4 weeks more gives me so much more hope.
    Also im a super lazy proof-reader so i think the printing it out and making notes thing will help me alot.

  • @lindsay4254
    @lindsay4254 4 роки тому +21

    “You know, as time goes on and priorities change, expectations get ... lower” - me looking for a boyfriend

  • @olgax.
    @olgax. Рік тому +8

    watching this while crying bc i'm a clown who has 11 days to write my dissertation and two other essays.....
    it's nice to know i'm not the only one at least,,

  • @AbroadinChina
    @AbroadinChina 3 роки тому +102

    My master's dissertation must be 30k words long... currently sitting at 28k after 4 months of writing and have 3 days left to finish... stressful AF

  • @lowkeyboldknit
    @lowkeyboldknit 4 роки тому +7

    You have no idea how satisfying it was to watch you in this situation. As if I wasn't there myself last year..

  • @Shadowwing1994
    @Shadowwing1994 3 роки тому +3

    I'm currently writing my thesis and honestly...this really made me feel better about myself XD thank you. You really made me less nervous

  • @isobel6739
    @isobel6739 4 роки тому +1

    I'm currently finishing first year and watching this as motivation to stop leaving all my essays until last minute because I don't want this stress. Thank you! Hope it all worked out!!

  • @keithleon6538
    @keithleon6538 4 роки тому

    Good luck with this Jack. Hope you get the grade you want. This reminds me of bashing out my dissertation last minute, do not miss those days!!