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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...
Take it, to the limit, one more time
04 September 07 03:49 PM | wayne.griffiths | 4 Comments   
I was shocked this afternoon to discover how easy it would have been to exceed the word limit for my thesis. I took one page (full) of text from my thesis and counted the average number of words per line: 14. Then I counted how many lines there were on 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...
Thesis detergent
17 July 07 12:32 PM | wayne.griffiths | 0 Comments   
It would be really great if someone would invent a thesis detergent. You know, something to get rid of those annoying marks they always seem to pick up when they go off to visit with the supervisor. I mean, you send it off to them all nice and clean, Read More...
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Pressure, pushing down on me...
13 July 07 04:45 PM | wayne.griffiths | 3 Comments   
(a small diversion - has anyone else ever confused the beginnings of the songs "Under Pressure" by Queen and "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice? 'Cause I have...) Well, I've just finished a meeting with my supervisors. The first piece of news was that one 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...
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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Unwanted Milestone
04 June 07 02:40 PM | wayne.griffiths | 2 Comments   
On the weekend I passed a milestone that I had hoped I would never come to in the first place - my fifth birthday whilst a PhD student. How naïve I was to think all those years ago that I'd be finished in three years, three and a half at the most. It Read More...
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Ignorance isn't bliss
28 May 07 03:07 PM | wayne.griffiths | 3 Comments   
I used to think that I had good written communications skills, but now I'm not so sure. The reason? I have sent quite a few emails over recent weeks on various matters, however a large portion of them seem to have been ignored. I'm trying to work out Read More...
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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...
Crisis narrowly averted
07 May 07 06:20 PM | wayne.griffiths | 1 Comments   
Today was the day I had perhaps felt the most insecure in quite a while. You see, I had taken a couple of days at the end of last week to go on a small break, courtesy of some plane tickets, the time of which I had had to reschedule from last year due 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...
Happy anniversary...
18 April 07 12:38 PM | wayne.griffiths | 1 Comments   
...to me! With all the talk of weddings on here lately, I thought it only appropriate to recognise my own anniversary. And no, I'm not married. It has been exactly one year since I started writing my thesis. Sure, I started planning its structure well Read More...
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