I get it, part of the rite of passage into Master-hood is writing a heavy-duty chunky paper with scholarly insight, proper grammar, and a beautiful bibliography page. Does it have to include nit-picky professors, and non-existent references? For instance, I was reading a great article with great insight. It cited another article with a fantastic title which I cannot find anywhere. Did the first guy make up this citation to make his work look better? Can an academiac do such a thing? If so, can I as a mere grad student point this out? Where is this source? The all-knowing google has found nothing, ebsco and JSTOR are clueless, the supposed author herself can't identify this title... What gives? I'm too young to realize that academia is full of dishonest power-hungry politi-profs!
In other news, my thesis is about 1/7th finished. EEEK! I wish it would write itself already!
