COVID-19: the viva stress is real.
So, worst case that comes out of the viva is that I’ve got some more work to do, other than fixing the typos I’ve found in my thesis. If that’s the case then so be it.
Tag: Harry Potter
Third year is here.
It was a pure coincidence that this Tedx event was exactly 2 years into my PhD, I only actually realised on Tuesday, but I feel it’s a pretty symbolic milestone event.
“This is a good plan”
My post today is a positive one, I just wanted to share that this process isn’t easy, because I wish that I had believed the people around me who said they struggled too.
Sometimes it just feels like admin..
So really, I have done a lot, it just doesn’t feel like research, more like admin, or progress because it’s a lot of writing for the assessment and making phonecalls. Reflection and data collection, however, is an important part of research even if it doesn’t feel like it at the time. It’s part of the cycle and without it I’m going to have nothing to analyse and no results.
PhD life is like the Dark Arts
I don’t mean that PhD life and research are the spawn of evil and researchers are like Death Eaters using their skills to destroy the world as we know it. In fact, the name for this blog was going to be something like “You can’t just tick things off a list” – but I thought this was way more interesting (and I haven’t mentioned Harry Potter for a while!)
The [sine] wave of PhD life
Things come in waves and as long as I am working and making some plans and progress that’s what counts and matters (obviously results matter but it’s not like I’m lying in bed wondering my my report isn’t writing itself!)
So close, yet so far.
I feel how I imagine Harry felt in his fifth year walking down that corridor each night but never quite managing to get through it. [For those of you who reading not a Potterhead: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix reference. Long story short, he walks up this corridor most nights for the best part of a year and the door at the end never opened. Then after months it was ajar but he couldn’t reach it…you get the point…]
My mind is numb, I can’t even think of a title.
I feel like I haven’t written for ages, at least not on this blog. I’ve written a lot of notes, I’ve written a lot of lists and I’ve written a lot of plans.
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