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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Catching some Z's

10:49 PM / General / 2 Comments

I had my last meeting of the academic year with my PhD supervisor today, at which we discussed my goals for the next few months and also completed my yearly progress report. Result: I've got the go-ahead to proceed to my third year of study.

The general consensus seems to be that I've made a great deal of progress in the last twelve months, both in terms of learning new abilities and putting them to practice with the actual writing of my thesis. For instance, I've become far more adept this year at performing close textual analysis, a process that was all but alien to me this time last year. I have drafts of three chapters - introduction, literature review and first analysis chapter - under my belt, and will be submitting the next chapter at the start of the next academic year, i.e. the end of September.

Obviously, therefore, the coming months will be as busy for me as ever. However, I'm taking the opportunity to put it all to one side for the next couple of weeks and just relax - something I don't feel I've really had an opportunity to do since Christmas. I've also taken some time off work to coincide with this welcome break. Hopefully, I'll be able to devote some of my free time to more reviews and perhaps some more in-depth posts on this site. I am, after all, rarely content to just sit and do nothing, although it's nice to have no pressing commitments for a little while.

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