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From out of the blue I get this letter from the registrar telling me I have earned my masters degree under schedule B. Apparently without knowing it I took enough classes in graduate school here and at my former school to qualify for a masters with units rather than writing a thesis. Is this or , or is it cuz I never even thought about, considered that option.

So here I am dragging a thesis out of my soul knowing I already have it. It is somehow very very depressing. I wish they hadn't told me. I'm leaving for Italy at the end of May and have been putting the thought of that trip out of my mind in hopes of completing the tome and making the filing deadline before I leave.

What do I do? I'm about half way through the first draft and it is really hard to concentrate, especially now that I know in one sense it doesn't matter. The silver lining is that my major prof said that I could continue on as a grad student next year to write the thesis and continue other strands of our studies. But that just puts my life in limbo for another year. And will I come back to it after the summer and after already receiving the degree??? What would be the point except a little self-satisfaction with a publication? I got all my joy pleasure satisfaction from the research and tickling nature to giggle out secrets, not writing a thesis. Pounding the keyboard to make myself sound intelligent isn't quite as fun And what I learned in the field most had nothing to do with my research; but that's a whole other thesis.

So here's a question: What would you do and why?

Note added: No, i'm not unconscious; when I first went through the registration process they said that the graduate classes I had taken earlier would not apply to my masters because they were in an unrelated area.