Hi glowworm,

thanks for your reply. I have a co-supervisor, but he is retired and hasn't been participating in any of my research, needless to say the write up part. I don't have a personal tutor, haven't heard any PhD students have one here in NZ. I have expressed my worries contstantly to her, at a point where everytime I see her down the corridor, I would give her a smile and the look that I would like some feedback. I'm pretty sure she gets the message.
I guess I just have to wait for until the end of this week to have my meeting with her and see what she says then.
Thanks very much for offering support. I really appreciate it to be able to talk to someone.

Thanks for your comments guys. I'm in physical chemistry, and I have been starting to give my chapters separately to my supervisor a few months ahead. She had only
just managed to read chapter 1, and gave feedback. Then after that she's just been too busy to read. When the deadline is getting close, she told me to give her a complete draft to look at instead. So for most of my chapters (those with actual science!), she's only going to read once, which is why it makes me worry..
Also, English is my second language, and I have been told that I'm not great at writing by my supervisor before. So all in all, I guess I'm just really not confident in myself? I'm not sure..

Hi everyone,

I've completed my thesis draft a few weeks ago, and my advisor has been very busy, so I haven't got any feedback from her. She's promised to give it to me later this week, leaving me two weeks to revise before I have to submit.
I raised my concern to her that there might not be enough time to let her read it again after my corrections. She then said she doesn't need to read it again. I just need to do the corrections and submit it. She asked why I would want her to read it again and I said that's because I don't want to fail.. She told me to have confidence and just think positive.
I always thought that this is a process that's going to go back and forth with my advisor a few times before I submit. I heard many times that in order to pass, your need your advisor's 'blessings'.

For those who have done a PhD, is it normal for your advisor to go through your thesis only once?

Thanks very much any response!