#phdlife

#threeGoodThings 1) My #garmin vívoactive 5 died after the battery life was getting worse and worse, and I was offered a discount for returning my V5 and purchasing the new Vívoactive 6. It was a neat experience to be without a watch for over a week! I’ve worn watches since I was a kid. 2) i almost took leave from the PhD program, but decided to stay after speaking with the PhD program Chair. #phdLife 1/

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Fathers Day (.au edition) will make deliveries busy today. Need to work lots now to make up the time I spent finishing The Thesis. Nice day for it! #PhDLife #deliverator

I have a new sticker. I shall post it as soon as I finish The Thesis. Now i must go to bed and intense sleep #PhDLife

Today's been very productive with The Thesis. I reckon I will be finished on Wednesday. My supervisor keeps giving me more work. Today, he asked me to make a few diagrams GAAAAAHHHH. I wanted to finish today, but no, it will take a couple more days. I feel exhausted. #PhDLife will soon be over!!!!

When I finish my thesis I am going to narrate it so I can help people go to sleep 🥰 #PhDLife

#threeGoodThings 1) Attended a conference and delivered my roundtable yesterday, and had fun overall. 2) managed to finally close the loop on a new database I have been working on acquiring for our campus (for over a month) from home yesterday morning. 3) Feeling more optimistic about the upcoming semester after reconnecting with some of my classmates at the conference #PhDLife A photo from the conference yesterday is below.

My wonderful PhD adviser is hiring! He's searching for a PhD student to work on combining search algorithms and machine learning. He's at the department where I did my MSc research back in the day, and where I had an amazing time. https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60705642?lang=en #PhDLife #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #GetFediHired #Belgium #MachineLearning #ComputerScience #Algorithms #Optimization

PhD supervisors, please be more specific when you make comments. "Rephrase" is not acceptable. 1. I sent my writing in for review, it is the best I could do and I think it's pretty good already, so do you want me to make it worse? 2. What do you mean: do you want me to add something, remove something? Address something? I am feeling really frustrated at this point - I have been stuck on this section for about two weeks and it is putting my finishing date in danger. I have spent days trying to work out what he means.... #PhDLife

Migraine aura has put an end to thesis editing today 😵‍💫😭 I am not in pain but vision is all over the place 😑 #PhDLife

Python wrangling. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫, having a break while my brain decides how to metadata my climate data for analysis. Supervisor’s one sentence comment turned into 5 days of coding (so far!) #python #PhDLife

Another week another dive into my thesis I have been doing this for way too long....... I reckon most candidates get to this point at the end! #PhDLife

I spent 8 hours on two pages today. So dense SIGH #PhDLife

I sent my final personal draft of my thesis to my supervisor, now it's a team effort. All diagrams done, the narrative is good. I am happy! Going for a ride on the scooter, the skies have cleared and I want to get out after days of rain #PhDLife

Good morning, it is Monday and another week starts The rain has cleared and there are blue skies. I had a really good rest on the weekend and my head feels clear. Meetings in morning and later have marking and thesis work in the afternoon. I really don't like meetings! #PhDLife

Every interview for my #PhD makes me feel revitalised for this research. Always engaging and interesting. #phdlife

Another interview for the #phd today. I knew these would be interesting but I hadn’t clocked how much fun I’d have. Turns out talking to interesting people about a topic you love is really fun. #phdlife