More thoughts on the PhD

So, it's late January, 2007.  I've made some progress -- a couple of papers, none are Journal quality.  I have a good work plan with my advisor for the next 4 months.

What have I learned?  I can't work on the PhD part-time!  I guess for most people that is a given -- it is too obvious.  I thought I could eek out a PhD a little at a time.  Bart gave me good advice a year ago:  Sell your house, move to an apartment close to campus, focus on finishing the PhD.

Now, I put my house up for sale and am planning to live in Israel for a few months while I work on something hard and interesting.  Maybe even the thesis topic will come out of it.