Thursday, February 29, 2024

From The Archives #9 - PhD by Numbers

Originally published 2004-11-16


Doctor of Philosophy by numbers:

Time: 1088 days or 2 years, 357 days; (1st Oct 2001 – 22nd Sept 2004); (365 + 366 + 365 – 8).

 


Published Thesis....  

214 pages

2,086 paragraphs

49,477 words

255,698 characters

49,396 spaces 


Writing Up.....

Took 73 days at an average 14 hours per day

Created a pile of scrap A4 paper 82 cm tall (ca. 32 inches)

Listened to 981 hours of Radio 5


Consumed while writing..... 

142 ham rolls

71 packets of crisps

132 chocolate brownies

34 chunky Kit Kats

35 blue Bountys

108 liters of Diet Coke

367 tea bags

84 pints of milk

7 bags of sugar

3 jars of Nescafe Gold Blend

And actually lost weight, due to such severe stress...

 

Read....

64 copies of The Guardian

9 copies of The Observer

8 copies of The News of the World

A few books on chemistry (!)


 

 



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