(April 3, 2017 at 8:08 am)Mathilda Wrote: 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!
My DFG scholarship also ran exactly for 3 years and I had to do without pay for three months, and then finish it on the side while working on my first research job. It's only fitting that I submitted on April 1
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
