My masters thesis had strict formatting requirements, and I bikeshedded the hell out of building my own LaTeX template in part because I needed an excuse to dis

My masters thesis had strict formatting requirements, and I bikeshedded the hell out of building my own LaTeX template in part because I needed an excuse to distract myself from... writing my thesis. And of course there were some ambiguities in the formatting spec that resulted in me needing to track down an advisor to resign a page in my thesis before she boarded a plane to Europe. If I had it to do over again, I'd have spent the time I spent bikeshedding doing something more properly restorative such as exercising or video games or... anything else other than grokking the internals of my home-built LaTeX template :-) Then again, if there are no formatting requirements, a digital version will suffice, and writing Pollen rather than your thesis brings you joy, then go for it.