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title: "How to write a Master Thesis"
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date: 09 Jul 2017 16:45:00 +0200
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path: /:year/:month/:day/how-to-write-a-master-thesis
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route: blog
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2 years and 7 months ago I wrote [How to not write a Bachelor Thesis][bathesis].
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Back then I just finished my Bachelor Thesis.
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I now finished my Master Thesis as well (with my final talk in less than 2 weeks).
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Its title:
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Network Function Offloading in Virtualized Environments
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I am so happy (and proud) that I finally finished it and with it my master study.
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I could go on and again give you the tips I learned over the last 7 months on how to work efficiently and with less frustration on such a project.
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Except I would just repeat what I have said back then for my Bachelor Thesis.
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So instead let me collect some statistics.
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Contributions to master
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I created the repository for all thesis work just 2 days after my birthday in 2016.
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Back then it should have been a completely different thesis topic, but due to some unexpected difficulties I had to drop the first topic before even beginning and went on to search for another.
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I finally found my topic in the beginning of November, but it took me until the end of that month to finally commit the first few lines of code.
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None of that code ended up in the final application of course.
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My commit frequency was quite different from back in my Bachelor thesis days.
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A lot less night shifts, but still nothing early in the morning.
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Frequency of commits by time of day
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</center>
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My application ended with about 4000 lines of C code, plus another 2000 lines of code in examples, tests and experiments.
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I also wrote some small helper tools in Rust, e.g. [ebpf-disasm](https://github.com/badboy/ebpf-disasm/) and a library and another tool, which I will make public in the next days.
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I only really started writing on 18th of May. That gives me just over 6 weeks for the final text, which I finished on 4th of July and handed in a day later.
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The final _thesis.pdf_ has 73 pages, 56 of those are the actual text (and graphs).
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According to a rough measurement with `wc` that's 25248 words.
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And of course I wasn't home for all of the 8 months of work.
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I was in Norway in March for BoosterConf, and traveled to Amsterdam twice during the last 7 weeks (the time I should have been writing more).
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Now I am done with studying. In 5 weeks I leave Aachen for good.
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The rest of the summer will be filled with catching up with work, so I can leave for an extended holiday trip in September and October.
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And when I am back in the winter, I need to start figuring out what I want to do. And where.
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[bathesis]: /2014/11/15/how-to-not-write-a-bachelor-thesis/
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