“Don’t blink or you will miss it”
it became obvious when were told we needed to submit an Early Stage Assessment as we were 9 month into our PhD…
I can remember our Research Proposal, the Stratigrad meeting and even posters and conferences for some of us, but 9 months seems like a lot!
Happily things got faster in the last 3 months as we got more experienced with NMR and MassSpec sample acquisition, data preprocessing and other software needed for our respective projects: the data started flowing in.
More data meant also more and more time in front of the computer to make sense of it, and that’s when our secret weapon came handy…
Tea or Coffee
1 or 5
First thing in the morning before any verbal communication or Last trick to get a bit more out of the day
we all have our much needed styles and habits…
Recently a very good friend about to start his PhD told me how optimistic he is, but said it might change in a year and cited this PhDcomic which – in truth – is spot on.
Read Pushing on in full