Sunday, May 18, 2008

My Final Year Thesis

Recently I have just gotten the title for my thesis. It is very unfortunate that I got the title because I was the last one to get to my department. Sob sob much. But then, I kinda expected it anyways so I am pretty much stuck with it and life still goes on. As always.
So without making anyone holding their breath to know what the title is, it's : Benefits of unilateral and bilateral Edulink fitting on speech perception in noise in older adults.
Quite a mouthful? not unless you're in this field, hehe.
Actually even if it was the last thesis title available just for moi, I was actually thankful I got this title. Because the other titles did not interest me anyway. And honestly, I think I work well with older adults. I just hope that they can hear me well, because a lot of people keep saying I am soft-spoken. Which is a good thing I know, but not so good if I need to talk to deaf people, right?
Anyway, thankful I was, but just for a short while until I started to really think about it. That is when I started to feel stressed out. I was going, Edulink is actually designed primarily for kids, where am I going to find published journals of it on adults? Where am I going to find the adults who wear Edulink? What is actually the age range for older adults? Which population is needed? How many subjects do I have to find? How am I going to do test the subjects? and on and on the questions just kept popping out.
For anyone's interest, my coursemate is actually doing the same thing, except that she's testing it on younger adults. Another fact that I'm thankful about. At least I'm not doing this alone.
Based on the thesis assignment, we are suppose to present the proposal in the 2nd week of the new semester. Which currently is 10 weeks away. Seems like I have plenty of time on my side, but then I'm heading up to Kubang Kerian for my industrial training, and I don't think I'll be spending much time googling about my title, or anything for that matter.
So my friend and I made an appointment with our supervisors. I actually anticipated the meeting, because, well yeah, I'm sure my supervisors are gonna set things straight for us. Alas, they cancelled the appointment. I was devastated. NOT. Hehe, but a bit frustrated because I'm not going to see them at all until I get back from Kelantan, as they are superbusy.
But the good thing is, my brilliant friend found our senior's thesis which was the SAME thing except that she tested the school-age children population. So basically, some of our problems are solved with that and I just can't wait to start on my thesis. Later, that is. Or sooner, who knows? ;P

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