Dear Doctorate Diary I stopped writing here for several weeks because I had suffered a sense of humour failure and all I was doing was complaining. I’ve been busy complaining to myself now and feel as if I am beginning to regain my sense of humour about the absurdity of …
Dear Doctorate Diary After the last two posts I took a bit of a break from writing these posts as I literally did not have one spare minute for this sort of thing. I did consider packing in my doctorate and had a meeting to discuss this with someone who …
Dear Doctorate Diary A week on and I am still struggling with the dilemma of whether I should stop studying for my doctorate and go back to having a life. I do resent having to choose between spending time with my family or exercising or writing my assignments / undertaking …
Dear Doctorate Diary (I hope you’re sitting comfortably because this is a long one) As you know, I am due to head to Canada for a work conference mid Nov. I haven’t renewed my Canadian passport since the 90s because I just used my British passport to travel to Canada …
This blog has been referred to as the Bridget Jones’ Diary of doctorates so I am going to start treating it as such. Dear Doctorate Diary, I’ve had a pretty good week despite some very hectic work days, and continuing to need to work on non-working days. The highlight of …
Working six – seven days a week and long hours each day continues, but even so it’s been quite a good week. I passed my 3rd doctorate assignment (we only get a pass/fail grade at this stage) and am officially in my second year of being a doctorate student. I …
Things feel impossible right now. I know this feeling doesn’t make me special because most people I know who have already completed their doctorate have experienced struggles along the way. I think my struggle is compounded by the amount of workwork I am having to do. I am only supposed …
Work is a bit overwhelming at the moment so I am spending a lot of my non work time (evenings and weekends), actually working in order to try and get on top of it all. I’m not being very successful but I am just about keeping my head above water, …
I had set myself the target of starting assignment 4 but I spent Saturday having a life and Sunday prepping for teaching this week soooooo…..it didn’t happen. I must make a start this week because I need to have the first draft done by Oct…and actually I should have been …
I’ve had some complications with my recovery from eye surgery so I have sort of lost track of where I am at with these posts. I think I’ve just finished week 44. Life’s a bit tricky at the moment with trying to fit in work and doctorate studies around ongoing …