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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 missed. I didn't work off the pdf for this. Instead, I went through all of the words in the ...

There will be a shift in my priorities over the next few days. I finally got all of the page breaks sorted out. It took an entire day to deal with. In a lot of cases, I would try and try and try to just shave off a millimetre or half a millimetre anywhere I could, all in the hopes of getting an equation to appear on the previous page...but it ...

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 it for almost two weeks *sigh*. This morning's info at the Research Careers week seemed to ring ...

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 supervisor. All my hopes and dreams of being rid of this thing are continually shattered, and I ...

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 the page and adjusted for the ''half-lines'' at the ends of paragraphs: 36. I've got around 200 ...

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, but alas, yet again, the dream has died. In fact, when I mentioned to one of my supervisors ...

I took an hour out of my less-busy-than-it-should-be day to go and hear some of the talks at the PSA Survival Day. The talk on careers was quite thought-provoking, and the advice given will surely come in handy for me as I continue on my employment-finding mission. I wanted to say thanks particularly to Dr Sato Juniper. Her talk was very ...