COVID-19: post thesis-writing “rest” and abstract acceptance
Other people’s achievements don’t take away from mine. We are each on our own journey and should recognise and be proud of our own successes.
Tag: Abstract
On a [natural] high!
This abstract being accepted, the outcome and views from yesterday’s workshop and the progress in my PhD have really given me a boost. A boost of confidence, morale and belief in myself.
“She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom.”
This past week since I last wrote has flown by. I’ve just been so busy that I haven’t really had time to stop and look back at what I’ve managed to do. I was just running on my stress and when I got home last night, I felt like I was missing something. When I realise that was my stressed, I totally embraced it.
The laundry list of a busy PhD life
TLDR: it’s been a busy couple of weeks, but I need to stop being so pessimistic because I am making progress as evidenced from what I’ve written.
Roses are red, violets are blue, I shouldn’t be procrastinating and neither should you.
This week has been a lot of editing and some procrastinating and some work. Not bad to fit all that in really!
“She works for the weekend”
I don’t think anything extraordinary needs to be happening for good progress to be made though. I’m feeling a little bit restless because I feel like I’m not achieving anything but I really am getting there.
Revelations from BioMedEng18
This conference really has given me a lot to think about, in ways that I didn’t expect. I’ve found the value from attending the technical research sessions (which were also very good, by the way!) but the other career and education sessions as well.
Does writing abstracts get easier?
I need to make it specific enough to be relevant and useful but vague enough to give me flexibility… <– that is the conundrum of the day (month/year/PhDlife/research)
I’ve done it!
So today, it happened. Finally. I have now got a model working with a pressure map of my dummy data – success!
Planning for my first abstract submission…
I don’t like presenting, but if I want a career in research and I want to share the research I’m doing, I have to get more confident and I have to practice. So, I’m preparing my first abstract(s) to apply to the BioMedEng18 conference in September which is being held at Imperial.
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