awww poor you, you have so much responsibilty, it must be hard to find the time to work on the thesis.

I know you can get it done though! i have faith in you

do you have any spare hours left for the rest of the day to squeeze in just abit of work ?

i read in joan bolkers book, that to do 15mins of work is better than nothing..

i've hit a motivation wall too. and just came across some old reports i wrote in my BSc and i got A- , and A on most of them, that's really cheered me up. and i'm looking through the reports, and i worked so hard on them.. so feeling that i can do it again for my thesis. i just need to organise it abit more.

my supervisor saying i write really badly and very disorganised and my thesis will most probably be crap, has really affected my confidence.

its like if you dont write like him, he thinks its crap.

awww poor you, you have so much responsibilty, it must be hard to find the time to work on the thesis.

I know you can get it done though! i have faith in you

do you have any spare hours left for the rest of the day to squeeze in just abit of work ?

i read in joan bolkers book, that to do 15mins of work is better than nothing..

i've hit a motivation wall too. and just came across some old reports i wrote in my BSc and i got A- , and A on most of them, that's really cheered me up. and i'm looking through the reports, and i worked so hard on them.. so feeling that i can do it again for my thesis. i just need to organise it abit more.

my supervisor saying i write really badly and very disorganised and my thesis will most probably be crap, has really affected my confidence.

its like if you dont write like him, he thinks its crap.

ooops i never did go back to working after my break yesterday, naughty me.
so i only did 2000 words yesterday and 2 hours of productive time.

and today, i can't seem to get into it. keep procrastinating. i should go visit the procrastinater website for some inspiration.


BB where are you? how are things with you? hope you're okay!

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how's everyone else doing?

what do you have to do today? and what have you done so far?

hey tetris, how's your editing coming along?

i only managed to work half a day yesterday. i was naughty and didn't go back to my computer for the evening night shift. oooooops and now i'm procrastinating!!

missspacey, i also have come across such ignorance!!

especialyl from medical doctors.

i think if you go back in history. the true doctors were the academic doctors, and medical doctors werent called doctors at all! then later on they were given the title, because they worked so hard yada yada. and now they act like they own the title, but originally doctors were experts in a particular field.

or something. im sure you can google the true history of the title of doctor.

sillybilly "and no i don't go to lectures"

lol i get that too!! mainly from my parents friends, because they think, doing a phd is just a really long bsc degree, and i just have to learn topics or whatever and pass an exam. they have no clue thats its original research and sometimes things just dont work out! and takes longer than you think!!! i get so irritated when they say, "oh you not done yet? what are you doing??"

i want to bite their head off, but i just smile meakly and say, oh yah it's coming along. and feel like s%%t afterwards for being the worst loser phd student in history!

spacey, i hear ya!

i too feel that i might not even pass my phd. but i really dont care anymore. and i am certainly not staying in academia, not after feeling betrayed by my supervisors. i've lost complete trust in them. and i do not want to work for them, in the begining i was thinking of staying on and doing a project, but not now, i wont let them suck me in and exploit me again and then throw everything back in my face.

i'm so out of academia!

lostinoz, you just nailed it!

i feel exactly the same way about my supervisor!! but i have to still be nice becuase i'm his hostage! and he wont let me submit. he even threated me in an email. that the decision to submit, isnt just mine!

my phd experience has been very negative also and hard work. i dont even know whether it was worth it to be honest.

as long as your first author thats all that matters! and reason you have to have the other authors, is because (im assuming) you didnt do everything on your own, you got some help from the others that are listed.

i have had one paper published, and i am the first author. and then my supervisor is last author. supervisors always want to be last, cause its good for THIER cv and career. and then the other authors, are people that actually contributed to my study. such as the statician and the pathologist, or what not.

but i get to be first author, because I did the study and i wrote the paper. and thats all that matters!

first authorship, is excellent , so well done you

entrepreneur
that is excellent advice! i wish i had such advice. i basically took the only phd that was offered to me, after going to 2 interviews, one rejected me, the other one told me to apply again, then they offered it to me, when they did 2nd selection of interviews and realised i was the best candidate (no idea why! i really wasnt lol)....

bad decision though, taking that phd.. i dont even know why i did a phd. i guess parental pressure. because i didnt get into medical school. so they wanted me to do something else that was just as worthy. and i did enjoy biology and everyone else on my msc course was applying for a phd, and i didnt know what else i wanted to do. i was so silly and immature! i wish i could go back in time, and slap myself lol

"Basically, expect to throw a lot of your first year work in the skip. The hardest thing to do is leave it out, because you feel you've worked so hard for it, but keeping it in might dilute the argument of your thesis"

coastman that's sooooooo true!! well said. my first year was a pile of poo and had to change projects. then the next project was rubbish too. but now my supervisor wants me to write about it, because it took 3-4 years, but i still came up with nothing, but makes no sense for the rest of my thesis and data. grrrrrrrr

i started my phd when i was 22. i went from bsc, to msc , straight into phd. retrospect, i had no idea how hard it was going to be. and wasnt really mature enough to realise the difficulty of a phd. i wanted to quit after my first year, but was too scared to. now i'm 30! i feel like i've just studied all my life...but it's not been all bad, i suppose. i must be the only phd student thats taken 8 years how sad!

planning on submitting this sept though if my supervisor lets me.

awww don't be so hard on yourself, 800ish words is great!! better than 0 words! it's a mathematical infinite improvement for when you first started!

keep going!

*clocks in* (day-shift)

hours spent at desk approximately between 1pm-5pm (with a little food break in between).

Total "productive time" = 2 hours.

total words = 2,501 words.

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Taking a break now, and then I will start the "evening/night shift" for the next 2000 word target.

*clocks out*.

that's great tetris! good luck.

report back at 6pm, and tell us how you got on and what you got accomplished..