This week marks the completion and reporting of the first experiment. The background section is complete now, though I will likely make some further revisions here and there. From now, maintaining my pace will become difficult because I cannot rely on other people’s knowledge to fill my thesis; every gain I make will henceforth come from my own labor. To this extent, I may be forced to conform somewhat to the timetable my group chooses to set out. I can complete at least one experiment a week (once my class ends, anyway; the assignment this week is twice as long as usual), but I cannot simply forge ahead or I will end up walking over someone else’s work.