Dear Ph.D. Thesis writers. You can do this! Ten years on, I still have my original Microsoft Word thesis files (I converted to Latex rather late in life...). So shall we have a thread of statistics?

I defended the thesis on 19 April 2010 and submitted the final copy on or about 5 May 2010, the last day I note any of these files were modified.

My Front Matter was created on 23 December 2008 or and was last modified on 22 April 2010. So it took about 17 months to write everything. Or maybe I was trying to force myself to write anything... Front Matter took 110 revisions and 348 minutes to edit.

My Introduction was created on 16 March 2010 and was last modified on 5 May 2010. Front Matter took 33 revisions and 115 minutes to edit. So I guess once everything was done, it was easy to write the Introduction. However, the Introduction does not contain a full lit review.

Uh, I'm going to end this thread, because the statistics make it look I wrote most of my thesis in a month. I'm guessing that I didn't and simply just copy, pasted, and re-formatted paper manuscripts.