Reflections on the first 100 PhDays
It's accidentally been a while since I last blogged. Oddly, I didn't think I had anything specific to blog about day by day but looking back, there has been lots to reflect on. "Big" milestones have crept by more or less unmarked (starting to read, starting to write, submitting my first iteration of some literature review to my supervisors...) So easy to lose sight of progress already when it doesn't feel like objective progress at the time. Yesterday was my 100th day of PhD! Which is vaguely arbitrary but felt significant enough to comment on. This second semester has felt very different to the first, which was mostly quite chaotic and ended not in a great place. I had to hit the ground running in January in order to submit coursework, but after that there was no longer any excuse that I could really use to avoid starting proper reading. So I did. Not without difficulty and some metaphorical kicking and screaming; but there was a definite day when I rem...