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Phinally PhinisheD
27 September 07 02:48 PM | wayne.griffiths | 7 Comments   
Yesterday I achieved what I had been waiting for so long to do - thesis submission! Here's how it happened: Firstly, I went through and did a final check for minor errors e.g. spelling. It was a good thing I did, because there were still two that I had Read More...
This is the sound of breaking up
18 September 07 01:51 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
Time for another update on the state of my thesis. Over the last week, I've read through the whole thing (in print form) and scribbled down what final-ish changes needed to be made in the margins. Then I set about actually making those changes on the Read More...
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...
Quit moving the phinish line
06 September 07 10:52 AM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
In a period of Dave Hughes-inspired anger, I think I'm about to lose it. I have just received comments back from a large chapter, one which I thought was almost the best. Unfortunately, there are more than 85 things still wrong with it, according to my 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...
Taking a breather
03 August 07 03:31 PM | wayne.griffiths | 5 Comments   
Well, I've spent all week dealing with my supervisor's comments on my penultimate chapter, as well as rejigging my concluding chapter a little. The hardest part was probably dealing with the 'rewrite' comment of the conclusion to the penultimate chapter. Read More...
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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...
Veni, vidi, sed non possum vicere
27 June 07 04:29 PM | wayne.griffiths | 5 Comments   
It seems sometimes that these days I just can't win. A big part of the problem is having two supervisors to satisfy. Let's say SupA is currently overseas and SupB is here. Now SupA is the main supervisor so ultimately it's them that I need to appease, Read More...
Cool campus
26 June 07 06:22 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
I finally got around to returning my library books today. I'd been meaning to do it for a while, but today was the due date (this is a reminder for all of you who have forgotten to do this), so I could procrastinate about it no longer. I had been almost Read More...
Interlude
07 June 07 05:14 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
...from the Latin inter (between) and ludus (a play), and thus something that occurs between the acts of a play. In my case, I'm taking a time-out to write this blog post, and have a bit of a breather, between two chapters of my thesis. And yes, I admit, Read More...
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Notation Rotation
30 April 07 05:21 PM | wayne.griffiths | 4 Comments   
Another fortnight, another meeting. Another meeting, another change of notation. Yes, I'm learning the new dance step called the Notation Rotation. And this proves that it really does take two (or three, if more than one of your supervisors gang up on Read More...
Apologies for the break in transmission
13 April 07 06:25 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
I want to say I'm sorry to people who may have been waiting for a blog entry from me for a while. I don't have a much of an excuse. It's not like I've been away on holidays or something. Although I enjoyed the two extra days away from writing last weekend, Read More...
You're cramping my style
22 March 07 08:04 PM | wayne.griffiths | 1 Comments   
I have felt anguish over the sorts of comments I've been receiving from my supervisor on chapter drafts recently. In order to preserve _some_ sort of anonymity, I'll give a similar example, but change the subject. I had written something like 4.1 Trees Read More...
Less Tricky with pstricks
14 March 07 03:17 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
Last week, my supervisor set me the not-so-nice task of completely redoing almost all of the figures of my thesis. These were the diagrams showing how different channel models look, not the ones of results i.e. graphs. Basically, different parts of the Read More...
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