Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii allll !!!... welllllllll........ the latest... my moc viva has been postponed yet again, hence i have not handed in my thesis yet, because as you know when your deadline is not there anymore, you go all lazy, well i do anyway. So i am in limbo now and i hate the feeling :-s
Oh dear that is pretty rubbish Amanda.
Right, goal 1 is done. I am now going to write 400 words before the end of the afternoon.
I had a bit of a crap day. Wrote a couple of hundred words and now that I have set myself a deadline for writing a chapter, put together a plan but I'm still feeling overwhelmed with it all and not all that confident about my abilities. So far I have been writing odd bits of things which has been okay but the idea of drawing it all together into a coherent chapter is freaking me out for some reason. I'm worried about eventually sending it to my supervisor and it turning out to be utter crap.
I have been looking through the thesis of another student who worked with my supervisor and wondering how I'm ever going to manage to write the bloody thing.
I was advised to speak to him about any worries like this but he is off on sabbatical (although we will be meeting in a couple of months time) and I don't feel like my replacement supervisor knows me well enough to give me reassurance. Oh well, I am tired and today has felt very much like a Monday, I'm sure it will all seem better tomorow after a good sleep!
Aim for rest of night / early am:
1)write short 1,000 word article for a magazine publication
2) break to watch Family Guy and American Dad with a cup of tea
3) Return and finish article by 2am...
Good morning!
I've managed to faff around doing nothing for a few days, and now have a bad case of the guilts for being so lazy. I've also now only got three hours until I have to meet my supervisors to show them a draft poster I've designed for a conference. Only I haven't designed it yet. So, that's my goal for the next three hours!!
Gah. Really must get back on track and knuckle down to some hard work....
I had a rubbish day yesterday. I finished 1 analysis, and spent the whole day reading my true blood book. I'm really tired from the weekend and when I'm sluggish, I just cannot work. But I must! Today's goal, same as yesterday :-(
Yesterday goals 1, 2 & 5 DONE. I tried to chase up the people I need to talk to but they weren't in.
For today; Goal 1 - get to office
Goal 2 - find the people I need again
Goal 3 - look at website I found the other day for project ideas
Goal 4 - finalise conceptual model
Goal 5 & 6 - try to understand fully the process I need to model x 2
Goal 7 - look for potential models to use
So I've got alot on today but hope to spend at least ten hours in the office (if I ever make it in!)
Good luck everyone (up)
All you people working in the middle of the night seem crazy to me- I can barely manage to work past 6 o clock!
Just had a positive meeting with my supervisor, who told me the only way to learn how to do my analysis properly is to be prepared to start writing stuff which is crap and then get comments and feedback. So feeling a lot better today and ready to begin tackling some writing!
But goal 1 is to write up some notes from the meeting.
Then goal 2 is to stay in the office until 5 and basically write all day.
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because I'm my evil side is prevailing and I can't seem to get any work done :-( :-(
Just managed to register for the conference I have in June.
Oh and that abstract I wasn't sure about writing because I had no results yet (I'm sure no one remembers), anyway, I ended up writing frantically ten mins before deadline and getting it in - it was awful. Well that was accepted to another conference which initially was pleasing until I realised I would actually have to present the work!
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