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The Seven Year Itch.

Full Six years have passed and the thesis is still not finished.
(Apart from the preparations, such as theme searching, workers search, Exposé Leave etc, then you could beat on it again 18 months.)

Challenges. I expected times like this - but I never thought
they'd be so bad, so long, and so frequent.

first everything went well. The exposé was A timetable for, based on three years. (Of course, fictional.) On 1 January 2005 I took up my Fellowship in Berlin in graduate school. How it expired without the work was done, as I have been working for nearly three years, "the side" at the University of Lueneburg - or rather, work, and incidentally the Diss write, you did can you follow this blog again.


was recently not very much more about new advances. In fact was not much here at all. In March I presented a (very lengthy, complex) Chapter. In May, I have made myself to the next chapter. Then again, the job came up. In August I wanted to, during my vacation - go on with the relevant literature, but had done so much in July Making vocational, that I have to sifting researched books had not yet ordered. Since September I have received some papers, and since September, the work rests on the Diss - a very different project I was intervened in my "free time".

Do it later. The Early Worm Is for the Birds.

This is now all but over, and for the new year I have only one real purpose:
be done!

Finish be a value in itself, and he is much more important and higher rate than the quality of scientific prose, the breadth and representativeness (?) of the field studies, and even more important than the depth of the analytical investigation.
Only those who will be ready - and it was a despicable " rite " - must be examined and may result in its title. Who is not ready, nothing and nothing (in science). Never mind?

Mediocrity. It takes a lot less time, and most people will not

notice the difference until it's too late.

Nee does not in itself - the science anyway corrupt is very specific occupational field (but also great, of course). In any other profession (including housewife and mother) no one asks for note or content of the thesis. Never.

The question now is, of course: how to become ready? As always, every great journey begins with one small step. In this case: three steps: Step One

I've done in recent weeks and months: I was with the mind and heart (more difficult) from my original Approach adopted . Too much, too complex, too large, too many comparative studies. I do not get, and I MUST create this does not - because much say what I want is already evident after an analysis, comparisons were only "more of the same, just different" ... interesting but not important .

Perspective. Less is more. Unless you're standing next to the one with more.
Then less just looks pathetic.

• Step Two

is more difficult: it is about muster enough motivation and / or external commitment in the form of deadlines, seminars etc to hold the final sprint to.

motivation. If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you,
you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.

Here I am on the right track: as early as one week I have students in - Colloquium present maintainer of the estimated (most recently I was there in November 2007 ...) What am I supposed to tell? No idea! But for that deadlines are so good. In March, is also Kunsthysterikertag in Würzburg. There's nothing even to my subject, but already last time in Marburg the half day research has properly air swing on the matter. Moreover, since one can meet friends and cook up strategies. And of course, flirt with publishers ... Until March, I'm so fed.

• Step Three

is related to two - because where there's a will, there's a way - and it's about sufficient time and also power / energy . Here I have the depressing experience that I find my job often the dissertation - did stand back - too many times.
One is paid and the other not;

Get to Work. You are not being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.

the one I am colleagues (and students and a semester schedule) required by the other only myself .. completed after an average 28 hours per week, three days a week, I need both the relevant closing time and my weekend for regeneration, and in the days when I actually still check the e-mails answer questions and the supervising teachers and tutors - there often go for several hours on it. Problem: the work makes me so fun, and the "benefit" is immediately visible - in the personal contact, and also in the form of tactile evidence (letters, files, internal publications). This is much more satisfying than a doctorate in the distance ...

This form of multi-tasking (two parallel jobs plus personal life), I am good obviously limited. However, running this week from the second-term contract, but the next "career level" remains for me without the Diss blocked. Do I want to get ahead professionally (no matter where, no matter what), so I must be done, and but soon, that much is clear.

Achievement. You can do anything you set your mind to when you have

vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.

Whether my time management this year, without this personal major project in 2010, is now better, I'll see after tomorrow - because there's so going off again. If the motivation of step two enough?

inspiration. Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99% perspiration,

Which is why engineers sometimes smell really bad.

Now I'll redirect least once in my presentation for next week. I'm just trying to a to-do mind map with Prezi ... Gambarimas!

Links:
all images: http://www.despair.com/
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_ (Doctor) # Germany
http://www.kunsthistoriker .org/1166.html

over plans for my Diss likely here (oha!): polish. Chapter 5 and also usual
About Prezi here: PowerPoint is dead - long live Prezi? Some considerations for and against.
here on good intentions last: nothing but good intentions. About
career opportunities in science recently: Templin manifesto - this long to sign.
About the German Art Historians here: is canon when all sing the same not only at the same time.