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For the last several month I was working on my study thesis / student research project - a study thesis is kind of a small diploma thesis that I need to accomplish before I start working on my diploma thesis. Normally its a relatively small project - perhaps comparable to a bachelor thesis done for 3 month in part time.
Well - I worked 11 month nearly full time on mine. Its several tens of thousands lines of source code in a relatively complex project. Compared to any published software in this area its faster, more flexible and computes (at least) comparable results. Of course I dont know whether there is some unpublished software out there which is faster.
My idea (and agreed with my tutor) was that I will continue working on this project in my diploma thesis. Well .. first my tutor got another job in a foreign city (this means the project will be harder to do, but still possible), then he told me (in a subordinate clause in an email discussing something different) that this diploma thesis will not be possible (for administrative reasons).
No sorry, no bad luck, just the simple statement.
Well - I tried to get another tutor for this project - and yesterday afternoon I had a meeting with another lecturer from my university (not the first time I tried to meet said lecturer). During the meeting the telephone rang, the lecturer answered (I went out of the office, dont want to disturb). Roughly 90 minutes (of waiting outside) later I was called back in and we settled for a new appointment next week - but: I will not be able to continue my original project.
Why is this really annoying me? Because I worked very hard and long for this project. Because I know that now this project will go to waste - noone will continue it. Because I wanted to continue with another study next semester - but this wont be possible now (a new project means that I will first have to find one, then train myself with it, then work on it - more time then continuing the existing project... and I dont have that time. Not after working for too long on my study thesis).
It would not need much to get this software really good - its already parallelized and network-enabled. It needs some (small) changes to be fully cluster-enabled and it need a better GUI (already has GUI, UI and network interface). As I need to continue with another project I dont have the time to do this.
There were some other annoying points yesterday afternoon, but really it breaks down to: Last chance to continue this project gone, much work gone to waste, last chance to continue my study next semester (or next year for that matter) gone.
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