Today, I finally turned in the final draft of my dissertation at the printers. Hopefully, I will be able to submit the thesis on Tuesday. This seems as good a time as any to look back at the last five years and try to account for the time spent:
Dissertation Time: 5 years
Start: October 2009
Submitted: September 2014
Dissertation, metrics
8 Chapters
346 Pages
100,533 Words
Books, cowritten
1
Edited Volumes
1
Journal Articles, written
5
Journal Articles, cowritten
6
Articles in Submission
2
Chapters in Books/Proceedings, written
2
Chapters in Books/Proceedings, cowritten
5
Other Publications
24
Conference Papers
23
Invited Talks
5
Other Talks
37
Courses, held
13
Summer School, participated in
1
Election Campaigns, worked on
1
Secret Evil Plans
5
All in all, this could have been worse.