According to Julie

- You spend 12 hours a day at the library.
- You keep a local coffee shop in business.
- You keep a local liquor store in business.
- Doing work for other classes feels like taking a break.
- Doing work for other classes feels like a complete distraction and waste of time.
- The Inter-Library Services people (probably) hate you.
- You’ve written eighty pages.
- You’ve written zero pages.
- You find yourself on Facebook instead of writing your thesis.
- You’ve considered dropping out of school, since you can’t graduate without it.
- You avoid your advisor like the plague.
- You see your advisor three times a week and generally camp outside their office.
- Your eyes no longer focus properly on what you’ve already written and you’re afraid you can no longer read English (or any other language your research is in).
- You have thirty+ books checked out from UT libraries. They're all stacked by your front door so you can easily grab them on your way to the library/coffee shop.
- You constantly stress about how you should be writing or reading more.
- You constantly stress about how you should be writing or reading something, anything at all.
- You’ve taken up smoking to have breaks from writing.
- You make Facebook groups as a form of procrastination.
- You do anything as a form of procrastination.
- Running away to another country has come to sound like a perfectly acceptable excuse not to write the damn thing.
- You dread people asking you what you’re writing your thesis about.
- You can spit out a perfect three-sentence summary of your thesis.
- You have to talk for fifteen minutes to explain the premise of your thesis.
- Finding time to do laundry is getting harder and harder.
- Everyone you encounter comments on how stressed you seem.
- You can answer every question in class as well as the professor (if the class involves your topic area).
- You look like a hobo/drag rat carrying four bags of books, articles, drafts, and a laptop to campus every day.
- You never leave your apartment because everything you need for your thesis is there.
- Everything you own or possess regarding your thesis is in a giant locker at the PCL.
- You’ve changed the premise of your thesis four times this month.
- You can’t remember what life was like before you started your thesis.
- You can’t imagine what life will be like after you finish your thesis.
- You haven’t seen your friends in weeks.
- You spend every night drinking with your friends in an attempt to forget about how you should be writing your thesis.
- Every subject, no matter how unrelated, makes you think of some aspect of your thesis.
- Your parents have no idea what you’re actually writing about.
- Your friends have no idea what you’re actually writing about.
- All you talk about with your other thesis-writing friends is how stressed you are about writing your thesis.
- You love what you’re writing about.
- You have come to hate what you’re writing about.
- You’re not sure what you’re writing about anymore, you just search for random articles involving very specific search terms.

After it's all over: You're terrified of going to grad school because you'd have to write another one!
OR
You don't hesitate to start grad school so you can recycle your thesis.