diff --git a/tex/thesis.tex b/tex/thesis.tex
index 1705d2e..c99548e 100644
--- a/tex/thesis.tex
+++ b/tex/thesis.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 % \documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
 \documentclass{report}
-% TODO I want to keep figures in each subsection, which this doesn't do
 \usepackage[section]{placeins}
 \usepackage[top=1in,left=1.5in,right=1in,bottom=1in]{geometry}
 \usepackage{siunitx}
@@ -20,7 +19,27 @@
 \usepackage{pgfgantt}
 \usepackage{setspace}
 
-% TODO glossary can't apparently be used in section header (even thought it
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% benevolently force figures stay in their own subsection
+%
+% NOTE the placeins package only has a 'section' option which puts
+% floatbarriers after every \section call; this does the same for \subsection
+
+\makeatletter
+\AtBeginDocument{%
+  \expandafter\renewcommand\expandafter\subsection\expandafter
+    {\expandafter\@fb@secFB\subsection}%
+  \newcommand\@fb@subsecFB{\FloatBarrier
+    \gdef\@fb@afterHHook{\@fb@topbarrier \gdef\@fb@afterHHook{}}}%
+  \g@addto@macro\@afterheading{\@fb@afterHHook}%
+  \gdef\@fb@afterHHook{}%
+}
+\makeatother
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% header configuration
+%
+% NOTE glossary can't apparently be used in section header (even thought it
 % would be nice)
 
 \doublespacing{}
@@ -36,6 +55,9 @@
 
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 % acronyms for the lazy
+%
+% adding as many as possible has the added benefit of making the thesis longer
+% and making me sound more sophisticated
 
 \renewcommand{\glossarysection}[2][]{} % remove glossary title
 \makeglossaries
@@ -150,6 +172,7 @@
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 % commands for lazy farts like me
 
+% gatech format conformity
 \newcommand{\mytitle}{
   \Large{
     \textbf{