Its been 4 years and 6 months since I started my PhD project which should have taken 3 years to complete. I guess many of you will know the feeling.

I have writen 3 drafts of my thesis and the last one (which I felt was “good to go”) was completelly trashed by one of my supervisors, with whom I had a string of problems.

I should say that normally I am quite upbeat and positive, always looking for the way to solve problems. but the past 6 months have been really hard. I will not give up! probably because I am too stuburn.

But also because of my family. They are all supporting me… in their own way. I will be the first in my family to have a PhD (if and when I get it). This is a big thing.

Anyway, today, after spending all day working on the thesis (that word is like a knife going through my neck everytime I said it) I could only write about as much as I wrote in this little text. Rather disappointing really.

So, I am feeling a bit frustrated and down beat. Will continue to work until mid night and then go to sleep or not depends how it is going.

If you all have any good ideas drop me a line. really appreciated it. Thanks.