Morning everyone.
I'm not feeling good today at all but will get what I can done (this is one of the days I curse being my own boss because if I was working in an office or something and didn't care about my job too much I'd have called in sick and not worried about it!).
My two main goals are to make progress with both my analysis and literature sections of the chapter I'm writing. First up in the analysis.
My work is going slowly today. I have managed somewhere between 200-300 words, which for a first draft of analysis isn't good. I'm setting myself the goal of another 500 words by mid afternoon.
I managed my 500 words. I am making slow but steady progress but still panicking even though I have over half of the chapter drafted by now.
I'm not feeling well at all and am having trouble focusing so rather than trying to write my next goal is to reread a couple of articles which are relevant for the analysis I'm doing and to see what else I can find which will help.
Morning everyone.
I had a completely useless day yesterday when I was achieving so little that I just gave up and did housework and made a big pot of bean chili instead. And then I overslept and missed the early train this morning, and the later one was horrendously delayed, so I've only just got into the office. Gah!
Never mind, goals for today:
1.) Draft out abstract for conference presentation before supervision session at 12
2.) Print out and re-read draft questionnaire before supervision session at 12
3.) Go to supervision session at 12
4.) Go to statistics class this afternoon
5.) Write up supervision meeting notes (may be left until tomorrow...)
Batfink, at least you have the excuse of the trains, I've only just sat down for the day and I only had to travel from my bedroom to living room!
I had a much needed lie in but have now had to cancel my 4.45 spin class and will go for a quick run instead so I can work later. I've been cutting my days short all this week which is not good.
Goal 1- rework one analysis section.
Goal 2- write up 500 words of literature stuff.
Goal 3- Type up notes from a supervision session from ages ago which I forgot to do (audio recorded so its not too bad).
Goal 4- Go through the millions of PDFs of articles I have saved onto my computer and delete the ones which are already saved into refworks or that are useless and get the others into some sort of order.
Goal 1- finally done. I have decided to carry on with the analysis for the rest of the day as this is the bit which is stressing me out and needs the most work.
Tomorrow I will start with the literature section while I'm fresh, and I'll do the other bits of admin at the weekend.
Morning.
Goal 1- gym. DONE.
Goal 2- drop books off at library- DONE.
Goal 3- Write 500 words of literature section
Goal 4- Rework one piece of analysis
Goal 5- Work on presentation for next month
Morning! (Just!)
Spent this morning madly trying to rewrite an abstract for a seminar presentation by lunchtime so my supervisors could comment on it and I could get it sent to the organisers asap (the deadline was yesterday but I begged an extension). Almost done - just need a few minutes away from it before I go back and re-read with clearer eyes. Phew!
Goal 1 - rewrite abstract - almost done
Goal 2 - write up notes from yesterday's supervision meeting
Goal 3 - think through comments on draft questionnaire and start planning changes
I think that'll be more than enough to keep me going today!
I CANNOT focus at all today after sleeping really badly. I managed to write 200 garbled words on my literature section but it felt like a bit of a waste of time because I really can't focus.
However writing my presentation is an easier task as it is based on a chapter which I have already written. I'm about half way through it and now my goal is to get a draft of the whole thing written.
I now have a draft presentation done. (up)
My next goal is not to fall asleep and to read a book chapter.
I have had a wonderful day. After some stress yesterday. I decided to enjoy today. So, I went to a small village, walked and sat by the lake for two hours. Then, I bought a personal memoranda for the next year. I Called somebody who is very very positive. :-):-x
My goal now, reading an article and taking notes
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