I started a PhD in November and I only recently found this site and some of the information has been surprisingly useful. Strange to find so many people in the same circumstances or with the same worries.

I guess then that it's a fairly autonomous process, compared with my MSc research or my undergrad project and in times of wondering what my supervisor expects, I'll just go ahead and do something anyway. That, or revert to this forum again.

I do have one query, I'm coming up to 3 months in the role and I am wondering, how many papers, how much writing and how much planning I should have done? I have been doing some analytical stuff on some previous data and basically trying to understand where I fit in to this whole process but I'm by no means well on my way to finishing my literature review. Is that a bad thing?

Steve