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The road is long...
13 September 07 03:01 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
At long last, I'm finally at the stage of reading through my entire thesis as a single unit. I had been thinking that I could submit soon after that, but alas, no. One of my supervisors is jetting off overseas and won't be in a position to sign off on Read More...
Another one of those annoying milestones
30 August 07 11:48 AM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
Today marks 500 days since I officially began writing my thesis. Notice that I didn't say that I've been writing for 500 days, because there are some weekends in there when I didn't do any writing. I really had hoped to have submitted before the big 500, Read More...
So much to do, so little time
17 August 07 08:25 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
I'm sorry to say, but today marks my 4 1/2 year mark of being a PhD student. And I am even sorrier to say today that my scholarship expired. So, I'm going to be 'roughing it' until I can find any sort of employment, the search for which is still being Read More...
Squish
27 July 07 05:10 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
Today, instead of making any instantly-recognisable progress on my thesis, I've spent many hours playing Squish. No, it's not really a fun game. Note that it is typically played using LaTeX. I'm not sure whether it adapts easily to Word. Here are the Read More...
Dr Pressure
29 June 07 11:07 AM | wayne.griffiths | 3 Comments   
I wonder if the stresses of PhD research was what Mylo had in mind when writing the song "Dr Pressure"? Somehow, I think not, but you never know... Anyway, I am starting to feel those stresses as I look at my diary this morning and realise I only have Read More...
The Final(?) Countdown
08 May 07 07:42 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
Cue the very 80s sounding music of the same title that has been used to death for just about every Australian election television coverage that I can remember. With some fair amount of horror, I realised today that I am meant to submit my thesis in 100 Read More...