lol you're so funny!!

i think for me, i have 11 weeks left!!
but yes it's nice to have another member of the september deadline!

lol at your idea of writing words per contestant haha.

i'm planning on having a 1st draft of my entire thesis by july 1st!

yah we really need to keep an eye on each other, to make sure we're progressing and haven't fallen in a hole of dispair.

well done tetris! that is excellent!!

cool!

i hope you're right juno!

i agree with the others, try seeing a doctor, you could be suffering from depression and anxiety. you dont want to burn yourself out. seek some counselling, maybe at your college?

i understand how you feel. my supervisor hates me too. and it does make me feel bad and affects my concentration. but this forum and the kind and supportive people here makes me feel better. and i just try to concentrate at the task at hand. i set myself little goals and deadlines and work towards that. then reward myself.

i also have trouble working for long periods of time. so set myself little tasks to work in short spurts. then take a break. just do the best you can. the important thing is to work on it everyday, no matter how little. and try not to be so hard on yourself.

i understand the whole crappy life thing and not having a bf etc. studying is very lonely.

well done on having a productive day!

yah i've shut myself away from the drama of "life" and right now, all i think about or try to think about is my thesis. i'm a hermit lol.

yah i know what you mean about men.

good luck with learning the new theory.

you were right! most of the words came from the figure legends hehe.

thanks so much for your encouragement, i was procrastinating, but you helped me to get something done.

so i feel better now

okay i have finished going through the figures and figure legends from the paper. and rewriting some parts and making a note to go back to this one figure thats quite hefty. i don't want to get bogged down with it at the moment. i will return to it.

my zero draft of the chapter is 6516 words now (with some rubbish stuff in there though and mostly comments telling myself to expland on this and that)...
(i read in a book that a chapter for a thesis should be at least 6,000 words).

now i need to trawl through my earlier drafts to add more to the chapter. and expand on certain things.

i think it's going to be an all nighter for me tonight. i'm going to take a little break now though.

how are you getting along?

hmm thats a very good question, as i am writing my thesis chapter based on a paper i wrote with my supervisors and throughout the paper they have written "we" we thought x y z.

and now in my thesis, im adopting the same. and i read a collegues phd thesis that passed, and he also used "we" ... so either i say , we or , just use a past tense. and that was funny what someone said to treat the thesis like a puppet lol!!

eg he wrote in his thesis

"We then used the *** model to investigate how *** **** "

although "we" could also be considered as the royal "we" lol

it helps knowing you're working hard aswell.

i'm at the moment making a huge spider diagram, of more details of the things i need to include in my chapter.

well i havent done much, i went through my folder and pulled out all my earlier drafts of the paper, so i can use the stuff my supervisors cut out into my chapter.

i still feel bad about what my supervisor said to me. but im trying to focus at the task at hand. basically my deadline is tommorow, and i have to pool together a zero draft of the entire chapter. and have at least 6000 words for the chapter. so far i have about 4,500 words based on my 2nd paper.

and i have to sort out all my figures from the paper and other figures i made but were chucked out, cause of lack of space.

next deadline, shall we say 6.30pm

thanks for keeping me company!

thanks tetris, you made me feel better

okay cool! i will work hard on my thesis chapters so when i have to meet him, i can show him what i have done, even if its just in a rough draft version. cause he thinks i've done nothing for my thesis.

yah he should give me contructive critisism! and not just put me down. thanks tetris :)

okay 45 mins left!!

lets get cracking

i dont want to use the figure my supervisor made because he is acting all high and mighty that he did all the work for the paper that i wrote! so i hate his figure lol. i know i'm being childish. maybe i can change it abit or something. its like i dont want any help from him whatsover. as he thinks i'm a failure and i think he hates me for not having written my thesis.

i think secretly he wishes i will quit so he doesnt have to read my thesis and correct it. cause i only have 3 months left. and he has so many other phd students. for which he gets "points" from, but me, he wont get anything. because im registerd at a different uni and ive taken 8 years.
sorry just needed to get that off my chest.

good idea tetris!! make small achievable goals, that way when you get them, you will feel better!
good luck!

shall we keep an eye on each other. what say you, we report back in an hour, and declare what we have actually done. so 5pm, is the deadline.

i will take your advice, and do the same. my goal is to sort out all my figures and tables for the results section of my chapter.

ooooops i dont know how that got posted twice! sorry!!

well i am stuck, so going to try something different. going to make a spider diagram on one large piece of paper (sticking A4 together) and sort out my figures and stuff.

good luck with today !