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Week 6 and all the previous ones
It’s been one month now, since my last post. And in this month, there was all - from really hard work, fair laziness, to almost depression for not having the right energy and ideas.
I am beginning to realise that writing up a PhD it is no joke. That it may sound like just another few hundred pages to be written in a scientific language, with some smart citation and some cool ideas of the author - but actually it really is much more than that. I think I didn’t quite have the idea until a few days ago, when I really sit myself down and tell myself off for not being hardworking enough. Then I realised it’s not all about hard work. It’s also about feeling right, being in the right mood, having the right ideas, reading the right books and articles, organising the work right. Yeh, how to organise the work process? I read and I read and I read … and nothing seemed to stay in my head. Then a friend (who already completed a PhD) told me that it’s all about making the right notes not only in the book but in a seperate document. I already read about this once but didn’t think I could actually work like this. Then another friend told me she is using EndNote not only for references and citations but also for note - writing. I tried it out. It is fantastic. Now I think I am out of the crisis I have been in for the last month and I can start THE real work. Oh well, this will yet to be seen.
By Nana | November 18, 2005 | Topics: PhD, Research |