{"id":3893,"date":"2015-03-20T13:51:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T00:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2016-08-01T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T21:08:13","slug":"manuscript-march-if-my-thesis-were-a-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=3893","title":{"rendered":"Manuscript March: If My Thesis Were a&#8230; Recipe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday again, you know what that means. Time for another round of IMTWA!<\/p>\n<p>Cooking is such a favourite procrastination activity of mine, that I sometimes think of my thesis in terms of ingredients, quantities and heat. In fact, writing a thesis isn&#8217;t that different to cooking a souffle: you have to crack a few eggs, and it&#8217;s notoriously difficult to get the balance of ingredients\u00a0<em>just so<\/em>, but the rewards are <em>delicious<\/em>. (Granted, mastering the perfect souffle doesn&#8217;t offer quite as many rewards to one&#8217;s status and career as completing a major research project, but if you&#8217;re on Masterchef it&#8217;s probably pretty crucial.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/43067-this-souffle-has-sunk-so-badly_w.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3895 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/43067-this-souffle-has-sunk-so-badly_w.jpg?resize=300%2C234&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"43067-this-souffle-has-sunk-so-badly_w\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/43067-this-souffle-has-sunk-so-badly_w.jpg?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/43067-this-souffle-has-sunk-so-badly_w.jpg?resize=150%2C117&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/43067-this-souffle-has-sunk-so-badly_w.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So if the Edmonds cookbook contained a recipe for my thesis, what would that recipe look like? Here&#8217;s my best guess:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Edmonds-recipe2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3904 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Edmonds-recipe2.jpg?resize=525%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Edmonds recipe\" width=\"525\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Edmonds-recipe2.jpg?w=525&amp;ssl=1 525w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Edmonds-recipe2.jpg?resize=102%2C150&amp;ssl=1 102w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Edmonds-recipe2.jpg?resize=205%2C300&amp;ssl=1 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your turn, readers: what would the main ingredients be in your thesis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s Friday again, you know what that means. Time for another round of IMTWA! Cooking is such a favourite procrastination activity of mine, that I sometimes think of my thesis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-3893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category-3","category-category-5","tag-just-for-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83npQ-10N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3905,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions\/3905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}