A year ago I was asked to come up with a completion plan of my thesis. 9 atbildes
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social.3dots.lv/@pixel (2016-11-29 02:26:36) |
A year ago I was asked to come up with a completion plan of my thesis. | |
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social.3dots.lv/@pixel (2016-11-29 02:28:18) |
@dimazest I came up wit a Gantt chart. I worked hard to stick with it for a month. It was relatively easy, because it was coding... | |
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social.3dots.lv/@pixel (2016-11-29 02:29:01) |
… and I had some experience in estimation of software engineering tasks. | |
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social.3dots.lv/@pixel (2016-11-29 02:29:44) |
As soon as “writing” weeks came, I got busy with other task. | |
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social.3dots.lv/@pixel (2016-11-29 02:30:59) |
As a result, I had to shrink the writing phrase from winter-spring-summer to mostly summer. And even then I had to say NO quite a few times. | |
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social.3dots.lv/@pixel (2016-11-29 02:31:40) |
Comping back to planning. This weekend I planned to finish addressing comments on Chapter 2. | |
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social.3dots.lv/@pixel (2016-11-29 02:32:41) |
It’s Monday evening and there are still undone parts. Now I don’t want to even estimate how much time it’s gonna take. | |
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social.3dots.lv/@pixel (2016-11-29 02:34:55) |
My point is that the year plan I was asked to do was unrealistic from the very beginning! | |
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social.3dots.lv/@pixel (2016-11-29 02:36:03) |
In fact, it influenced me negatively, because it made me feel that I underperform. | |
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social.3dots.lv/@pixel (2016-11-29 02:36:45) |
Thus the minimal amount of vacations and breaks. Just 100% distilled guilt. | |