Planned vs. actual Ph.D. program

I thought the following table was pretty interesting. I created it in November 2020 after I had been in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Ph.D. program for about a year. I did not have my courses approved by my committee yet, but I was trying to make a guess at how long it would take me to get through, how to get the credits all in and finish in a reasonable time. I was really not trying to go fast, but not slow either. There was a trade-off between the money Troy would have to come up with (shorter is better) and sticking around in the program as long as possible to move Troy’s research program forward. It is kind of amazing how good was my guess. The part that I did not really get so right was the amount of work it would be to write the required articles and the dissertation. Pretty much everything extra got put on hold for four years, including health stuff like eating right and exercise. There was no excuse for that, but I got through the program fine, Gracias a Dios.

Month 3 WEIGHT: 200.3 lbs. BMI: 31.4