Building Rockets

I met with my dissertation chair yesterday and read some materials he gave me. At the end of that couple hours, I looked up to no one in particular and said, I have no idea at all how to write a dissertation. And then I said to someone that it's like telling me to write about how to go to the moon. I know that you have to take a rocket. I can write a paper about how you have to get in a rocket, wait for the countdown, sit there while it takes off, and then stay in the rocket until it gets to the moon, and then you're there. That's about what I know. It's not wrong. But the problem is that someone is telling me to not forget the instructions on how to build the rocket, and put in a section about flux capacitors, and the section about the alpha grommets will be very important, and there oughta be a section on the development of internal combustion and its development into, I don't know, external combustion, or whatever kind of combustion that rockets have, and oh, by the way, Sir Isaac Newton had something to do with all of this.

But I can't write about rockets. This is the problem.