I nearly had a nervous breakdown writing my dissertation. Funding was only for 3 years so had to write up while working full time in industry with a boss who was a bully and living in a part of the country I despised. One week of working every spare hour was the equivalent of one full days work on it. Spoke to one person in a similar position who gave up instead.
I hit the ground running when I started my PhD but it was only the beginning of the third year when I got results. But my contingency plan was to also develop a load of tools alongside it so if I didnt get my primary results I could talk about the tools instead and radically change the subject of the dissertation. This led to really large dissertation!
I hit the ground running when I started my PhD but it was only the beginning of the third year when I got results. But my contingency plan was to also develop a load of tools alongside it so if I didnt get my primary results I could talk about the tools instead and radically change the subject of the dissertation. This led to really large dissertation!
