*** Note: This blog post may be of interest mainly to PG students in the writing-up stages ***
Start of the day
Day 6. Still not getting much sleep (it was household chores yesterday that kept me up till 2am because my wife was preparing a job interview). But I'm feeling fine, thank God for the coffee. Today I had a message from one of my supervisors reminding me about deadlines. It was good to be forced to reflect on how little time I have left. I have to meet a 3rd Sept deadline to submit the whole thesis (including the now missing chapter 8: conclusions). And then meet a 17th Sept one to submit the final draft of the thesis. There are still a lot of changes to be made but I'm confident that I can meet both deadlines. It'll then be a question of waiting for feedback to come back from my supervisors and then making the final changes before submitting the thesis on 31st Oct (or earlier, if I can, to make sure my viva is arranged in time without any problems). I think I'll be increasingly relieved after meeting each of these three deadlines, but I'll be specially relieved once I've done my viva exam in December. Next Christmas might be a good one!
End of the day
I had to finish earlier today (12pm) because I have to take my wife to her job interview. But tomorrow I'd like to make a lot of progress with chapter 5 (finish it, perhaps) and continue with chapter 6 (Thu), chapter 7 (Fri) and chapter 8 (Sat and Sun) before submitting PR12 on Mon 3rd Sept.
Review: Day 6
*** Note: This blog post may be of interest mainly to PG students in the writing-up stages ***
Start of the day
Day 6. Still not getting much sleep (it was household chores yesterday that kept me up till 2am because my wife was preparing a job interview). But I'm feeling fine, thank God for the coffee. Today I had a message from one of my supervisors reminding me about deadlines. It was good to be forced to reflect on how little time I have left. I have to meet a 3rd Sept deadline to submit the whole thesis (including the now missing chapter 8: conclusions). And then meet a 17th Sept one to submit the final draft of the thesis. There are still a lot of changes to be made but I'm confident that I can meet both deadlines. It'll then be a question of waiting for feedback to come back from my supervisors and then making the final changes before submitting the thesis on 31st Oct (or earlier, if I can, to make sure my viva is arranged in time without any problems). I think I'll be increasingly relieved after meeting each of these three deadlines, but I'll be specially relieved once I've done my viva exam in December. Next Christmas might be a good one!
End of the day
I had to finish earlier today (12pm) because I have to take my wife to her job interview. But tomorrow I'd like to make a lot of progress with chapter 5 (finish it, perhaps) and continue with chapter 6 (Thu), chapter 7 (Fri) and chapter 8 (Sat and Sun) before submitting PR12 on Mon 3rd Sept.
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