| PhD night |
My loving and very patient wife Catherine decided after the conference was finished that I should continue to use the organising night (Thursdays) to hang around university, but this time for my PhD. I liked the idea, so here I am on my first night in the office at ANU plodding away. I'm actually being fairly productive, which is nice.
For my PhD I agreed to do 20 hours of study a week. To be honest I do more some weeks, and less others, but I'm pretty sure without having tracked it at all that I'm doing more than the 20 hours. This evening will just mean that I can spend some more time with the kids on the weekends, which will be nice.
I suspect that one of the reasons it doesn't feel like I'm progressing a lot at the moment is that I am in a writing up stage, and I'm working at approximately half the rate of a normal PhD student. I'm a little over a year in, which means that I've done the equivalent of six months for a full time PhD student. I wonder how much they've got done within their first six months? [tags: progress]
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