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Hello there & welcome to my blog!

So this is it: my first official blog... I am proud to present ;-)

In terms of my MA in International Tourism Management, I am supposed to write a 15,000 word dissertation within the next couple of months. This blog will hopefully help me to come to grips with this task by keeping you (whoever is interested) updated about the progress I'm making and exchanging information or advice.

So much for the theory!

In practice, I have written similar pieces of work before - namely a couple of extensive research reports and finally, my Bachelor Thesis at the end of my undergraduate study. For the latter, I didn't have any limitation in word count and wrote over 20,000 words on the topic of 'Smartphone Travel' (I might go a little bit more into detail on this later on). Now one could assume that, having experience in writing reports and having produced an even longer one before, this upcoming dissertation is -as we Germans use to say- 'pille-palle' (the closest translation would probably be 'easy peasy lemon squeezy'). But far from it!

Obviously, it is all about quality rather than quantity, which makes the whole process so complex.

However, apart from not having a specification on word count, another thing I didn't have for my Bachelor Thesis was a BLOG... Tadaaa, here we go - it can only get better :-)

From experience I can tell that writing a dissertation or thesis (however you want to call it) can be quite intense, time-consuming, and most of all nerve-wracking (especially for people around me - sorry about that in advance!). But just as much, submitting the final piece of work can be very rewarding - especially if you have a high demand of yourself and are convinced of your own work, irrespective of the grade, which will follow sooner or later.

Oh boy, how much I wish that I had reached that rewarding-stage already! But well... A good friend of mine has recently given me this fridge magnet, which pretty much says it all:

Having said this, I will get started and try to put my ideas for a thesis topic in words in the following post and keep you updated.

Thanks for reading & good night for now!