After eight years with this topic, five years at University of Ghana, countless notebooks, redrafts, and seminars, my manuscript is now finished, printed and submitted!
The feeling is indescribable.
My Only New Year’s Resolution 2015
…is finishing my PhD.
5 years in, two kids later, one pending extension of program, 100s of pages written and 1000s of articles read – this madness must stop so I can summarise what I have learned and move on to other projects.
This year it is therefore happening: I will submit my dissertation! And I am telling everybody! My family, my boss, my friends, now you!
You can help me by asking how it goes, offering to entertain my children and please just stop giving me “interesting stuff” to read.
I will be chronicling my progress weekly over at the blog for my research website Student Migration Aspirations.
What resolution have you made for the new year?
Read some other academic new year’s resolutions.