A small matter unrelated to the main focus of the post.
You use the phrase "...while working on my undergraduate honours thesis...". I have long been of the view that, in order to attempt an Honours program, one already needs to have completed the Bachelor Degree (i.e. have become eligible to graduate) and therefore the Honours program is postgraduate rather than undergraduate. The exceptions to this are programs in which there is no plain Bachelor degree, just a (usually four) year program culminating in a Bachelor degree with Honours.
A small matter unrelated to the main focus of the post.
You use the phrase "...while working on my undergraduate honours thesis...". I have long been of the view that, in order to attempt an Honours program, one already needs to have completed the Bachelor Degree (i.e. have become eligible to graduate) and therefore the Honours program is postgraduate rather than undergraduate. The exceptions to this are programs in which there is no plain Bachelor degree, just a (usually four) year program culminating in a Bachelor degree with Honours.
Succinct, reflective. Well said.