So, no more thesis. Here's my sob story...

My thesis was going to be a masterwork of digital geometry processing. First step was implementing an algorithm designed by Hugues Hoppe and Emil Praun (of Microsoft Research and some university or other, respectively). Then, I was going to extend on the algorithm to add all sorts of cool abilities: automatic subdivision and simplification, error calculation, optimization of geometry image dimensions, the list goes on. I started working on this algorithm back in September. One would have thought that it'd be done long before now. However, I just finished it last week. Hence, no time for my original contribution to the project; ergo, no thesis. I'm going to have to petition for the thesis credits to be changed into special problems credits, and I don't get to graduate with honors.

I'm kinda disappointed, but not for the reasons I expected to be. I'm not disappointed because I won't be graduating with honors. I consciously weighed all the options, and I decided that graduating on time was more important than graduating with honors, so I chose this route. Rather, I'm disappointed because there will never be a little red hard-back book with my name on it in the Ted Estess Library. I was really looking forward to that... But hey, at least I gave it a shot, right? Reach for the stars... Even if you don't ever grasp them, you get a good stretch out of the deal, and maybe a low-hanging apple if you're lucky.

Good luck with finals, everyone.