Sharing my work

My friend Jenn, also a classmate in the program did a ceremonial burning of her thesis after she sucessfully defended it. She had suggested that we do the same with mine. It is therapeutic and puts closure to the whole process. I thought it was a great idea considering how hard it was to finally get it ready for defense. It being Vancouver, it has been raining for the last few days and so we couldn't go to the beach and create a bonfire. We were going out for drinks to celebrate the defense and I decided that I would bring a copy of it so we could leave it on cars. I know it is littering but I needed to do something with the extra copy that I had. So at the end of the night we took my thesis and released into the world. I handed out pages of my thesis to random strangers. Many of them had been drinking so they were quite receptive to taking it. Of course, I explained to them that I had defended my Masters thesis and I was sharing it with the rest of the world. We also left it on cars. It was truly letting go of it and sharing what I had worked so hard for.