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Feb 21, 2009 16:46

Some of you may be wondering how I'm doing at the moment, well the comic below provides an incredibly close approximation to how I spend my days. With a good headwind and everything going well I should be submitting the thesis in its entirety on the 6th March. Fingers crossed.


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kvlt_kitty February 21 2009, 16:51:33 UTC
Good luck! How much do you still have to get done by your target date?

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gethrees February 21 2009, 17:09:21 UTC
Erm, well I submitted a complete draft to the supervisors a few weeks ago, but it was 12k words over the word limit and didn't really have that strong a focus stretched across the entirety of the thesis (I had written each chapter as a journal article, as that is far more useful for future work). So since the meeting I've rewritten the introduction, methods, and three chapters. Today I was meant to re-write the thesis conclusion, but got angry and frustrated so ceased doing that. So Still got the conclusion to rewrite, and the beginnings and endings of each chapter to make them fit with the overall focus. I have a meeting with my supervisors on Monday to discuss the intro and possibly the methods, so if they are happy with them I should easily be able to submit on the 6th, if they're critical it'll be tougher, but either way I'm submitting on the 6th ( ... )

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kvlt_kitty February 21 2009, 17:12:24 UTC
Best of luck with that then :).

Lol, woops! I shall be very careful in future then.

Is there a PhD comic appropriate to every academia related situation :P?

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gethrees February 21 2009, 17:14:34 UTC
Yes there is, a result of Misery Cam - http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=811

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kissmeforlonger February 21 2009, 17:46:15 UTC
Ha! Very best of luck with it. It's a hugely grinding process but you're so close now!

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gethrees February 21 2009, 17:55:24 UTC
Cheers Kriss, I'm hoping to get my ass back down to the People's Republic of York for a weekend once I've started the postdoc (and been paid); will have to make sure we meet up this time, as last time was a failure.

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kissmeforlonger February 21 2009, 22:02:52 UTC
That would be excellent. I will be very happy to buy you a celebratory drink or two - you've earned it!

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