Finishing a PhD is a huge effort, one in which you write and edit approx 50,000-70,000 words, including scientific paper chapters. Don’t get me wrong this task has been incredibly difficult, but what I have found even harder in the last few months of the PhD is the tiny little formatting errors and annoyances. If you are yet to get to the end stage I would suggest you to allocate time to formatting (and purchase some wine!)
- Some of my references not having hanging indentations despite the setting for hanging indentation being on
- One paragraph in my entire thesis not letting me indent the first line (only one paragraph in 256 pages?)
- My images being blurry despite trying every trick on google
- Tables. Need I say more
- Having to switch pages between landscape and portrait
- Checking references (if you a silly like me and do them manually- I will cop this one as being my choice!!)
- Having to change the numbers of your tables and figures everytime you add or delete one
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