Hi Everyone,

Welcome to the “Emergency! ….It has got to be done” thread. I’ve created this thread for people trying to get things done on their PhD who feel they have reached a crisis point (like me☺). I have six weeks to go and have a mountain to climb. I will be posting my goals for the day and in the hope of being held accountable will report back on progress daily. Feel free to join me....

Hi Everyone,

Aiming low today to get myself up and running again after “head in sand” episode:

GOAL 1: Write 1 specific section of methodology.
GOAL 2: Finish graphs for second results chapter.
GOAL 3: Redraft (small) final section of chapter 1.

DEADLINE (APPOINTMENT WITH BINDER): 25th September
WEEKS TO GO: 6
DAYS: 42

Come on Runner, you can do it! Steady does it and all that. And yes, I'll be checking back for a report at the end of the day 8-)

Now off to stop procrastinating and do some work myself...

Hey Runner, I actually submitted my thesis 2 weeks ago and had my viva last week, but I can remember very well what those last 6 weeks were like so I just wanted to wish you the best of luck with it- you will get there! KB

I am in a slightly different situation - i have six weeks of formal lab work to go (and a year to submit my thesis in). I am PANICKED! Good luck all!

Hi Runner

Me too - submitting on 15th. With you in cyberspace!

Hello everyone!

New to the forum so please be gentle ;-) !

I've found this forum whilst looking for some info on how people have coped with their struggles during their PhDs and have found so helpful to know that I'm not the only one who has low motivation at times, procrastinates, etc. So here I am, in such a crisis that I might have to glue my bottom to the chair for the next few weeks or I'll never get my thesis done by the deadline... so my question is... when you guys are talking about deadlines, are you talking about the final submission or draft to sups?

Not sure how others are doing but my sups want me to submit a whole draft together (even though they've been reading drafts of different sections since forever) with what I feel is the final thesis for them to look at. Then I'll amend and submit (although I can see that this might happen a few times) before I actually submit.

Tx

Hi Guys,

Hope everyone has had a productive day :-) I managed to get 75% of my first and second tasks done, but did not get onto the third one. Well - its a start - anyway.

Hi, I'm in similar boat. Absolute absolute deadline sept 30th. Slightly panicked, and for some reason I thought it would be ok to move house thus week. Bad bad idea. SPent weekend packing and moving stuff to storage. When I should have been up to eyeballs in work.

Plan for today was to finish chapter. New plan end it must be done by end of wed.

Off home to see how well the guys have cleaned house. They've been at it all day. Do feel bad I said I had to work today but it had to be done.

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Hi Everyone,

I am only just sitting down to work (eeek). Goals for today:

1) Finish methodology section from yesterday.
2) Finish remaining graphs from yesterday.
3) Finish small part of discussion which did not get touched yesterday.

Runner


DEADLINE (APPOINTMENT WITH BINDER): 25th September
WEEKS TO GO: 6
DAYS: 41