Categories: phd
Date: 04 September 2010 12:23:57
Thanks to everyone for their lovely and supportive comments. It really is fantastic to know people are rooting for me round the world.
I'm really really looking forward to writing my acknowledgements :)
You may remember ages ago I had a dilemma about applying for a job. I applied, and then didn't hear anything for ages. But I heard this morning. I have an interview in a month's time - 4 days after submission day! So there won't be much in the way of relaxing immediately after submission as I will have a 15 minute presentation to prepare, but I guess thinking about that will be a more productive form of procrastination in the meantime.
Yesterday I spent a fair bit of time chopping up the Chapter of Doom and working out which bits could go elsewhere. I'm actually amazed, given how much I hated writing it, given how much as a chapter it just doesn't work, given how compared to other chapters I (and my supervisors) could tell it was the wrong way to end the thesis, given how much a dent in my confidence all this gave me, just how much of it works absolutely fine in the existing chapters and how much of it can be just copied and pasted with minimal editing. Which, at this late stage in the day, is something of a relief! I should get all that done tomorrow, and hopefully a good start on the final draft of the megachapter, then it's just the introduction and conclusion to go. Which hopefully will be straightforward and not requiring any drama queen histrionics. Though I can't guarantee that :)