Semester three was a doozy. Semester three felt like it was ten seconds long. Honestly, before I wrote this, I was feeling kind of crummy about how it turned out, but I wrote this introduction last, and you know what, it wasn’t that bad. Here’s what happened.
Semester two’s in the books. (Already?)
I’ve finished my first semester of grad school! What strikes me immediately is disbelief. I started my year unsure of whether this day would ever come, and now I’m 10% done with an entire PhD.
I used to work a software engineering job in industry. There, we used a collection of practices loosely organized under the buzzwordy umbrella term Agile to manage and schedule our work. Here’s how I’ve adapted those for solo use as a PhD student.