Hi helebon, Are they your only supervisor? I supervised my first masters thesis a few months after my PhD (and trust me I was almost as invested in her thesis as she was because I really wanted my first student to pass) but the department insisted on a senior member of staff acting as co-supervisor because supervision was new to me. I think it's unusual for a first time supervisor to be unsupported.

About 164 pages! The thesis is always a lot shorter when it's in paper format!

Hi Tudor_Queen,

I submitted my thesis in paper format, it's the way the majority of people in Switzerland (where I did my PhD) write theirs.
I wrote the papers first and these were the most time consuming but my supervisor had me write them throughout the PhD so when I got to the write up stage all I had to do was write a general introduction and overall discussion chapter. These two chapters took maybe a month to write before submission. I didn't write a methodology chapter because this was included in the papers.

Hi Rubix, Your post sounded really familiar to me. My PhD has been split across 3 labs in 3 different countries and I constantly move between them. I have felt like quitting a ton of times and I understand it does all feel really isolated when you are the one in the department who is always traveling, All I can tell you is I'm now nearly three years in and writing up and it does get easier ... it just takes a lot longer to settle! You can get there in the end!