Posted by caraher on January 26, 2006, at 14:07:08
In reply to Lack of structure, isolation, lack of purpose, posted by Lucia Francisca on January 25, 2006, at 11:39:33
I'll leave it to you to determine the value of advice from someone who just received his diploma 10 years after entering a PhD program...
The unstructured time and isolation are two of the biggest occupational hazards of grad school regardless of pre-existing conditions. I used volunteer work as a means of prying my posterior from bed at a decent hour and to create some structure.
There's a support site for people working on dissertations, http://www.PhinisheD.org, that you might want to look at. People there make contracts with one another to provide some social support (and mild pressure) to write certain amounts each day, in addition to sharing advice on how to get finished.
poster:caraher
thread:602930
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20060124/msgs/603053.html