With the last few weeks ahead I am heav­ily work­ing on refin­ing and short­en­ing my PhD the­sis — a tough task to make the whole thing coher­ent and dense in terms of infor­ma­tion and under­stand­able at the same time. No … Con­tinue read­ing →

I am still focused and strug­gling at the very same moment, but I weren’t myself if I would not be opti­mistic that I can get this final draft of my PhD ready before Christ­mas. In terms of pages all still … Con­tinue read­ing →

Now focus is on qual­ity, not quan­tity — doing some more refin­ing to my the­sis. Noth­ing new for the cac­tus… Sep­tem­ber update: Cac­tus: 76 cm / PhD: 297 pages 2015, August: Cac­tus: 74 cm / PhD: 298 pages 2015, July: Cac­tus: 70 cm … Con­tinue read­ing →

That’s been another very intense month. I wrote and restruc­tured a lot and also had a meet­ing (or you may call it eval­u­a­tion) with the advi­sory board of my PhD project: I was quite pro­duc­tive and things went rather well … Con­tinue read­ing →

My cac­tus is feel­ing great — maybe also due to the com­pany with my new office cucumber-plant (note: first har­vest today as I am leav­ing on a one-week-PhD-writing vaca­tion). As this year is almost half over, I try to push … Con­tinue read­ing →