Well, I wanted to say that my PhD is going extremely well, but for the last months I am trapped into my country's bureaucracy in order to have access to my participants....
But, I am 6 months ahead of my initial schedule and I guess that means that I will have more (relaxed) time for analysis (?????).
Being in my second year of a part-time PhD, and as English is not my first language and I am working full-time, I believe that I am doing well...

thanks walminski :-)

But maybe i am being stupid/naive, maybe I just think its going well when it might suddenly go badly (very possible as I am on a money in-money out mode by the week).

But great thread!!(up)

I'm only a month or so in to my PhD but I already feel it's going poorly! I'm still a bit lost with it all and so spend most of my days pretending to be organised by writing list after list of everything from things I need to do that day to reasons why I'm doing a PhD and should therefore stay off facebook...Looking at everyone else's posts, it's good to see that this doesn't seem to change too much!! Fingers crossed I'll find a routine and work out what it is I'm meant to be doing so I can respond a bit more positively to the next poll....!

If I answered this a week ago it would have been a smug 'extremely well'. Now it's more like a 'so so'.

I am in my 4th year of a part time PhD and had a supervision yesterday to discuss my penultimate draft. I thought I would be able to tweak a few things and then submit by Christmas, but...I now have a lot more to do. I need to stream theory I used towards the end back through the beginning; add some primary literature (I got caught up in theory and neglected the specialist bits); rewrite the introduction... I am very disappointed, because all this time they have been saying it's great; they love my writing; I had four publications, etc etc... really it was the first 'challenging' supervision in three and a bit years. I almost cried in the meeting! How embarrassing.

Trouble is because I thought it would be over, I applied for an early career research award and now have two other research projects on the go alongside the PhD. Plus lecturing, running a programme, and being a single mum, oh and maybe a social life...? I still enjoy the subject. I love writing and reading. I just need to readjust my expectations. The silly thing is, I would have finished very early. Now I may just finish early.

And breathe.