 Hi, I'm Tanya. I'm a Doctor of Psychology clinical candidate at ANU. So what that means is that I spent a lot of the time over my degree in classes, doing coursework and on placement training to be a psychologist. So I haven't had much time for research but I've still had to complete this research project alongside my clinical training. If I had to sum up my experience doing research over the last four years in one word, it would be guilt. I constantly felt guilty that I wasn't getting enough work done, that the work I was doing was really rubbish, so the whole thing just felt like a huge struggle. I think looking back over the last four years, I turned down a lot of opportunities to do some research training. I kind of felt like maybe I didn't deserve it or my work wasn't even good enough to work on and I'm not sure why I decided to give boot camp ago. Maybe I was just desperate to get the thesis done but I did and I'm so glad that I just gave it a go and it ended up exceeding my expectations. After a thesis boot camp, you can come along to Veterans Days once a month and you just get a day to write and keep those skills that you learn at boot camp going. So for me that's been almost as valuable as boot camp I'd say and it's so nice to know that even if things are so busy for me in the rest of my life and I don't really get time during the week to work on my thesis but I've got one day a month where I know I'm going to get a lot of work done and it's not uncommon for me to finish revising a few chapters on Veterans Day and I often find myself apologising to my supervisor afterwards because I sent her so much work to review and I think that's a pretty nice problem to have.