Despite taking two hours out of the middle of my day to head down the hill for a couple of errands, I've already done over five hours of uni work today which resulted in 814 words being written in my thesis, and 3 new figures or tables being created/mentioned in the text. This total includes re-doing a fair bit of calculations, because the first time I did them I'd checked a variety of temperatures and pressures at a 250 bar increment, and these days I do the same sort of calculations with a 100 bar increment. Fortunately for me, the slight improvement in accuracy that results didn't change very much, so I was able to do the "path" calculations from that point using the same slope which worked last time, and have it work again this time, so while I had to re-do a bunch of stuff, it all went smoothly and worked on the first try.
And it is only 5pm! This means that I can take a bit of a break and, with luck, get back to it tonight...
Edit at 22:49 this evening: I did get back to it, only to discover a minor error in the data entry for the re-calculations I'd done, which meant I needed to do those calculations again. The results were only subtly different, but I couldn't leave the wrong ones in there! re-doing those calculations took only 1.5 hours. The rest of the evening was spent doing the calculations I'd intended to do when I got back from the walk I took at 5pm, and I sill don't have a path that is working, though I'm getting closer....
The end result? More than nine hours of actual uni work today, and 966 words written total.
And it is only 5pm! This means that I can take a bit of a break and, with luck, get back to it tonight...
Edit at 22:49 this evening: I did get back to it, only to discover a minor error in the data entry for the re-calculations I'd done, which meant I needed to do those calculations again. The results were only subtly different, but I couldn't leave the wrong ones in there! re-doing those calculations took only 1.5 hours. The rest of the evening was spent doing the calculations I'd intended to do when I got back from the walk I took at 5pm, and I sill don't have a path that is working, though I'm getting closer....
The end result? More than nine hours of actual uni work today, and 966 words written total.
Great work!
Date: 2008-07-15 05:05 pm (UTC)