500 words, thats great!

i am going through a "i hate my supervisor for saying that HE did all the hard work for my 2nd paper"
when i did all the work.

but trying to put it behind me, and working on my chapter. at least my 2nd supervisor knows the truth.

i am still working away on the results section, and have Gattaca on in the background keeping me company .

how's everyone doing with their stuff that needs to be done by tommorow?

it's 6.24pm and i haven't done anything eeeeeeeeeeeeeek.

anyone else suffering from the sunday blues?

okay i really need to get my act together and finish my results draft chapter. because I have to email it to my supervisor tommorow.

so much to do!!

aloha, tetris, and bilbo, are spot on with their advice!!

have a meeting, and discuss what and what cannot be achieved and what your end aim and result is. and work according to the next targets and aims.

and i agree with what the others say, take it one step at a time...

and taking 3 weeks off for a holiday wont make or break your phd. its only 3 weeks. i get really tired of supervisors treating phd students like slaves. i used to ALWAYS feel guilty asking for any holidays.

but realised, they wont thank you for NOT taking holidays. it wont even cross their mind, and will soon forget that you did not take any holidays.

do your best, make a plan and then just do the best you can do. regardless of what the outcome, that way at least you know you tried.

i felt exactly the same way most of my years in my phd. i had no results for 5 years! my parents had faith in me, and i too was so scared of dissapointing them. i wanted to give up all the time, and was very depressed, it was only in the last few years that i managed to get data.

and again my supervisors always told me, you shouldnt take any holidays and you should work 7 days and work long hours. blah blah.

when your a phd student. you really are given the impression you have to eat, sleep, drink phd stuff. its depressing!

i have a deadline to submit my thesis, and yet i have days and moments where i dont feel like doing anything and just want to nap! i think its avoidance.

That's very good advice BB!!

I am going to have one end note library. but at the moment i am working on different word documents of my chapters and then will bring them together into one word document near the end.

How was your day yesterday BB?

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then yesterday, didn't do much either. but did 1 hour of productive work on a results chapter, where i did the calculations and finished the table. so that's good. now i just need to spend today pulling all the results together and writing a rough draft what it all means to email my supervisor tommorow.
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no i dont do master document thingy, i dont even know what that means!

Hey Cakegirl! nice to hear from you! :) sounds like you accomplished alot! well done you:)

well naughty me, kinda took the day off on friday, unintentionally! ooops. but i did get an email back from a collegue on a paper draft he wrote, that will help me with my chapter. and my supervisor sent me the word documents of the paper i wrote and sent me the figures, color and black and white, that i need for my chapter.

but didn't really do anything, as i went to a philosophy lecture in the evening. i cancelled my social plans and didn't watch much tv during the week, so i could have the evening off. :)

*joins the, "I have a monday deadline too"* club.

I have to send a rough draft of my results section of one of my chapters tommorow ! eeeeeek. i got loads left to do. so looks like it might have to be a late night for me!

i think it's a great idea!

i have an online writing journal, in this forum, that i write in everyday at the END of the day. that way i am not "wasting" time talking about what i've done during working hours. i.e it's not another form of procrastination.

it really does help and monitor what you have and have not been doing.

go for it!!

you can even join mine if you like. it was originally jojo's idea, she has her own. and BB writes in mine.

i remember during my bsc final exams, i used to take pro plus to stay up till really late, cramming and revising.

i'm not a coffee drinker. maybe i should start!

my grammer has gone to pot! lol just re-read my posts. sorry!!

how was your day Cakegirl? (and glad you agree about the Will smith thing ) during the time I was writing my mphil, i had the Matrix on loop throughout the night to keep me awake. and just for "company" lol sad i know haha

and nice to meet a fellow owl! hehe

and BB how about you? how was your day? glad you fixed those figures, sounds like it was a productive day. well done :)

so i thought if im stressing about it now, i might as well just do it now. i know it's "procrastination" but there will come a point where i will "have" to do it.

and i have also decided to have ONE reference end note library, i think it was S that said you should have one reference endnote library, otherwise things go pear shaped!

although. near the end of the nite, i did feel guilty i had not done anything. so i set my timer to "10 mins" to do anything related to my results. which i have been avoiding, and just been reading papers up until now. then i thought i will just do anything, and then 10 mins turned into 20mins, and i got an idea on how to present my data and summarise it.

hours of screaming and frustrations, finally got it to work. i have no idea how! lots of reading of the microsoft help. but i feel better now, that i have a skeleton of how to do table of contents. i don't know why. but i kept having this nightmare flashes, that it will be 1 week before i have to submit, and i wouldnt know how to do table of contents. and all those tiddy bits. and my whole thesis would be a disorganised mess. and i read how sometimes having a table of contents as you write, can help you to see what you have done and what is missing, so its advised to do it as you go along, and not leave it till the end.