Anyone sick of their dissertation topic by now?

[Psychmeout]

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Hi all!

I just thought I would express my diminishing desire towards my dissertation topic. I am very interested in the area of study; however, I am getting ready to defend soon and am absolutely sick of talking about it! 😱

Does anyone else feel this way? Or, am I the odd man out? I chose a topic that I knew could maintain my interest for 2 years.......I am just getting tired of discussing it. Now that I'm getting down to defense, I don't know if I have enough 'umph' in me to go up in front of my committee.

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

It's part of the process.

 

[Psychmeout]

It's part of the process.

It's so funny because I always heard other students say the same thing towards the end of their dissertation, so in a way this feeling was expected. I think I am in total senioritis mode right now.

There just comes a point where you say.......okay, I'm DONE being a student. I want to get out in the field already! I want to be treated like a colleague, not a student.

 

[Cosmo75]

Yep 🙂 Actually it's all very anti-climactic. 2 years of work, then you finish the damn thing and it's like "ok.......great." I defend in June, and am approved by my committee but haven't even looked at the thing in a month. My senioritis is kicking something fierce right now.

 

[futureapppsy2]

Old thread, but...

My co-worker and I both defended theses this Spring (me undergrad, her masters), and we agreed that no matter what topic you choose, you WILL be sick of it by the time you defend!

 

[erg923]

I am one of those people who, although I genuinely enjoy research (and think it absolutely necessary for being a good psychologists), was never able to find one area that I was really passionate about. I picked by diss topic one night while trying to fall asleep because it was mildly interesting and most of the data was already there in one of our study's databases. Writing my lit review section has been a real pain bc i have had extreme amotivational syndrome during the whole process thus far. Somewhat looking forward to the analysis, but its nothing I jump up and down about. Are we done yet.....

 

[Neuropsych2be]

I am one of those people who, although I genuinely enjoy research (and think it absolutely necessary for being a good psychologists), was never able to find one area that I was really passionate about. I picked by diss topic one night while trying to fall asleep because it was mildly interesting and most of the data was already there in one of our study's databases. Writing my lit review section has been a real pain bc i have had extreme amotivational syndrome during the whole process thus far. Somewhat looking forward to the analysis, but its nothing I jump up and down about. Are we done yet.....

The alternative is finding a topic that you are enthralled with and taking *eons* to get it *just right.* One of the best pieces of advice I ever received was to do a dissertation on something I am not terribly interested in so that I will just want the damn thing done after about 6 months.

 

[toby jones]

Totally sick to death of it. In the writing up phase now (need to get my skates on) and it certainly feels like a chore more than anything else most of the time.

My supervisor tells me that it is totally normal. I started out wanting to study it because there were certain questions that I wanted to know the answer to. Well I've found out those answers to my satisfaction. Now I just have to write it up for other people. Ick. My supervisor says it is 'just a hoop' at this point and that writing a dissertation is writing a document that I'll never have to do again. Phew.

Just jump through the hoops. Finish up. Get the PhD already...

I'm sure my interest in the topic will return. In, like, 5 years or something lol.

 

[PhishGirl]

Seriously, if I have to try to explain what inhibition of return is ONE more time, I am going to scream...of course, I need to get over that since I have to defend this week, haha.

Finishing this thesis is brutal. This senioritis I am feeling now is the only thing that makes me nervous about tackling even longer projects in grad school.

But yes, I know how you feel being sick of it! Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!!

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

 

[psychmama]

I love my topic and am not sick of it, although I have no interest in writing about it.😉 I look at it like a bad tasting medicine -- I know it's good for me but it's still unpleasant.😱