Trying to find focus

I sit here at a table in the Reitz Union, which once resided in the corner where I spent much of my free time during undergraduate study.  It is now located near the middle of the Union, as there have been many changes to the place.  However, my reason for being here is eerily similar to what it was many times before.  I am here trying to finish an assignment in hopes of graduating soon.  That is about where the similarities end though.  Now, I am working on my final thesis for my Master's degree, which has taken me far longer than I had ever anticipated.  Well, I guess that's a similarity as well.  But this time instead of scribbling equations on engineering paper in order to finish a homework assignment, I must call on all of the things that I learned in undergrad to write a paper about the things which I studied in graduate school.  The material is all old hat now, and that is not what is causing me issues in finishing it.  The biggest problem is that I am having a terrible time finding focus and being able to write coherently.  I have been struggling with this issue for going on 4 years now, and have only had small windows of focus and in those windows i have written much of my thesis.  I am sitting here now with my thesis about 85% done, with just a few sections left and then editing/defense/etc.  If I can get done with what I hope to do today, I will likely move that total to about 95%, with just a few small sections left and editing.  I feel like I am at the metaphorical brick wall which runners face during a marathon.  Writing this paper has perhaps been the closest thing to a marathon that I have attempted in my life.  However I seem to have taken the path of the hare instead of that of the tortoise.  I have only had short bursts where I have been able to accomplish a large amount of writing, instead of being able to stay focused continually and taken my time, but finish much sooner.  If I can somehow find the proper motivation and finish it soon, and graduate in the summer, perhaps I will be able to get into a Ph.D. program.  If I can do that, I fully intend to begin writing early on and also have a much more specific goal set up.  I believe that I can design and perform a much more specific experiment and accomplish it in a much shorter period of time, resulting in much better results.  With better results, it should also be much easier to analyze them, and in turn write about them.  Though my chances of getting into such a program right now are very small, I have years of experience in a Master's program to draw upon and know what to do (or not do) and how to do it.  In the end, I think I really need to wrap this up so that I can actually get to writing the paper.  I just needed to get some flow going, and hopefully this will provide it for me.

Peace out.