First year complete!

Well, I had a supervision meeting yesterday and my research outline is signed off - so I have completed the first year of my PhD - hooray! Very, very pleased seeing as it's been so hard to keep going. I think my brain needs a bit of a rest for a while.

Comments on research outline

Received today:

"This is an impressive research outline - it shows an excellent command of the literature and it is thorough, clear and viable. So I would recomend progression."

and

"This research outline is extremely well prepared, comprehensive and clear, demonstrating that Peter is already well on the way to completing an interesting and important piece of research. The outline contains an excellent literature survey."

So, very pleased with that. There are more detailed comments to which will require more work, but for now receiving some positive feedback feels really good - I've had precious little of it up to now!

Waiting for comments...

I've got a meeting in a couple of days time to receive comments on my research outline from the two independent reviewers. I have no idea how much more work I may have to do before I can get it all signed off and know that I've completed the first year of the PhD. So I'm feeling pretty frustrated with it as I always hate getting the last bit of any task done. Once it is signed off, I think I really need a holiday!