Hi feelingfestive!

Welcome to the thread, I got involved because even though I plan to do lots in my head I always find ways to procrastinate and by putting my goals on here at least I feel somewhat accountable for them!

Today I aim to get 3 experiments run and I had also hoped to get some of my data analysis sorted out. However, my experiments have started somewhat later than I had hoped so I may not achieve that today!

Good luck for your application!

Happy New Year everybody!!! I hope you all had a good holiday season and took some time off to enjoy time with family and friends. Today is my first proper day back and I intend 2013 to be a very productive one. I have an abstract for a conference to submit today and I also want to make sure I have a solid plan mapped out for this year! Good luck for a productive dayt today everyone.

Congratulations Batfink!!! I hope you went for a long nap after it was done, you can relax for christmas now. Hope it feels like a weight of your shoulders (though from my friends who have previously handed in drafts/final thesis this doesn't happen seemingly) and you can enjoy christmas!

Today I had plans to tie up some loose ends etc but my eye is bothering me again so I am trying to get an opticians appointment so today may be a right off!

I hope everyone takes some time off for Christmas and New Year and have a lovely holiday!

Morning!

Congrats on the 60,000 word mark, well done on all your hard work! Hope you managed to get everything done yesterday that you wanted.

I didn't really get much done yesterday, felt miserable and found it really hard to concentrate. Today I need to make my plan for next year air tight and put together a rough outline of how long everything will take to be done before my meeting. Fingers crossed I get organised in time.

Good luck everyone today, especially you Batfink, one day to go!

Morning all. Hope you are all reaching your goals. I unfortunately got nothing done yesterday as I appear to have developed an allergy to my contact lenses! Spent all day yesterday getting myself in a mood because I couldn't do any work due as I couldn't really see! So today I am hoping (praying) for twice as much productivity! Have a catch up meeting with Supervisor tomorrow before we break up for xmas so lots to do. I aim to prepare for the meeting which includes writing a draft a4 abstract and notes on my data analysis.

Welcome to the thread mulrine, hope it helps you and hello again Sneaks! Batfink good luck... 2 days to go! Plough on...

That is great Batfink! How exciting to know today or tomorrow the final bit of data analysis will be done! Well done, all the hardwork has almost paid off. Good luck with the final push.

Today I am trying to sort lots of loose ends out before christmas so there are lots of papers and notes all over my office as I sort through what I need to keep, bin and areas I need to look into. A job I have been putting off for a while. Hopefully it'll get some order into my PhD life though!

Have a productive day everyone!

Hello all?!

One week to go Batfink! You can do it. Good enough for decent feedback is excellent! That is good about the job, especially if they'll give you a week to finish. Might be helpful to take your mind of thesis for a while then look back at it fresh to complete!

Today I plan to update my lab book and also prepare a bit of a plan for where I want to go next so that I am set in the new year to crack on with things. Fingers crossed!

Good luck today, hope everyone is productive!

Good morning!
Oh my goodness, that must feel good to have a printed out thesis?! I have to admit that is the one and only part of writing I enjoy, when you have actually finished a draft and you get to go through the printed out version with a pen! I hope your busy day went well yesterday and your meeting was good.

Today I plan to set up my final 2 plates for all my analysis that I start next year, tying up the loose ends before christmas I guess. I also want to try sort out the data analysis I have done this week and see if I can put any of my conclusions into words rather than tables of p values!

Good luck for everyone today.

Morning. Batfink how did your day go yesterday? Hope you got everything done that you wanted and well done for all the long hours, the end is in sight! Keep going, you are almost there. And biscuit baking sounds awesome, what lucky supervisors!

Today, I hope to set up plates for my runs tomorrow and then I have demonstrating this afternoon. Hopefully I will have time before then to try get the table done that I had planned to do yesterday, my data analysis took me a lot longer than I had hoped.

Hope everyone has a productive Tuesday... 2 weeks until christmas!

Morning all. Hope everyone had a good weekend! I am panicking slightly now that I only have 2 weeks until we close for xmas holidays, so much to do, so little time!

Today I aim to get some data analysis done and hopefully produce some tables/statistics for a paper I hope to produce from my current work. I also have a lunch time seminar so that should split up the day a bit.

I hope everyone has a productive Monday!

Yes Batfink, I am looking at 2013 as a brand new start for me (and my PhD) so fingers crossed. Glad to hear you had a break through! Excellent. And I think that will deserve a shopping break! Not long now until the big day (both hand in and xmas!).

I have had a bit of a personal drama in the last few days which concluded last night. As a result so far today I have not managed to do anything productive. So I would LIKE to work through a list of queries I have made about some loose ends in my data analysis and hopefully I can get a couple of other things done today. Fingers crossed.

Good luck today everyone!

Batfink, how did the finishing of the chapter go? Fingers crossed you got it out the way. For the first time in months I actually didn't feel like bursting into tears after my supervisor meeting so I guess that is a start...

Welcome Elphie! It sounds like you have joined for the exact same reasons that I have... It is so easy to stay busy when there is practical work to do but as soon as you know you should be doing work in an office it is like procrastination overload!! I hope you manage to get your marking done and look up the calculations!

Today I have been extremely bad and have not gone into the office. I went with my flatmate to get our christmas tree first thing this morning and when it started snowing again I decided it was best (and safer... I hate driving in the snow!) to work from home. I have noted down 4 areas I want to look into today which include doing some material and methods updating and looking into some possible new experiments I can attempt.

Good luck for productivity today people!

At least there is progress Batfink, albeit slowly!!! I hope you managed to finish reworking your chapter.

Today I hope to get onto my diagram that I didn't even have time to think about yesterday. I also have a catch up planned with my supervisor so fingers crossed his mood has improved since our last get together.

Monday again...

It is very cold dark and wet today but it also signals the start of my 3rd last week of work before xmas... Time to be productive!

Today I aim to finish the data analysis for one section of my work, as well as put together a diagram of the region I am investigating. I also want to try get a rough plan of what I think I will be able to achieve my the time the christmas holidays appear as there is quite a lot I would like to get done.

Hopefullly a successful day ahead. Good luck for having a productive day everyone.

Morning all! It is Friday! This has been a quick week and I did not get half of the things done that I wanted to! Oh well. I have a full day to try power through.

Today I aim to look into a couple of areas of interest that I noted down in my seminar yesterday and see if I can apply them to my thesis, maybe have a suggestion of a new technique/small experiment to do. That will no doubt take all day but I also aim to try make a brief plan of the next 3 weeks before xmas and see what I can get done before the the lab closes for the holidays.

Good luck today everyone. Just saw this on twitter and thought I would share - The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.