The Day of the Draft

14h30 in the fourth week of writing, 2h30 last week. To my defence, last week I was sorting out things in the lab, taking a few (maybe) last measurements, cl...

Day 3 Before Draft — what books have I read?

Time for a few summaries. I’ll start with books, as reading probably took between 10% and 20% of my PhD. To my surprise (and embarassment), I found I have on...

Day 10 Before Draft

Time management problem here. 26 h (35 h planned) in the second week of writing and 9.5 h (30 planned) in the third. Fair enough, unexpected things happened,...

Day 23 Before Draft

Day 31 Before Draft

Quite surprisingly, thoroughness in processing did pay off last week. The yield increased from almost zero to over 50% which, for experimental science, is gr...