Hi Waddett,
I am in the same position as you and am taking a few months out. The university has so far been supportive, I don't think it's unusual for students to take time out/move to part-time. I've not been asked to produce a GPs note but the university mental health advisor has been able to help. Hope you get it all sorted.

Hi Waddett,
Glad to see I'm not the only one thinking about writing up already. I left all of the writing up for my Masters until the very last minute and it almost ended in disaster, so I want to try and get into the habit of writing something even if I don't end up using it.

Like the diary idea, I started one today :-) especially as I don't have much to show yet for the work that I have been doing

I've recently started using endnote & endnote web and would definitely recommend it, it makes life so much easier. I just make sure that I use web of knowledge to export any references that I'm interested in and the endnote tab in word is nice and easy to use as well

I'm currently in my first year and have decided that my new years resolution should be to start to write up as I go along.
Just wondering whether anyone has managed to do this and how they went about it.
Anyone who has written up or is in the process of doing so, do you have any advice on the type of things that you think you would have found useful to write up as you did your research ?