u/Maleficent-Cook-3668

I've always paid NHI and Nenkin on time. This year I'm applying for PR so I just wanted to make sure that I get my NHI slips and pay it on time again.

While reviewing my past payments, I realized that :

1. The city hall sends the slips to you around June 15-20th.
2. You have until June 30th to pay for it, or you're considered late.

This seems like bad bureaucratic design? They only give you a 10-15 day window to pay for it at the bank.

That is such a short window that people can easily miss the payments without any intention. I could be on a business trip, vacation, away from home for whatever reason, etc.

Looking at my past slips, I got mine on June 18th last year and had until June 30th to pay. Effectively 11 days.

I understand that if I convert to direct-bank payments, then they will take the money automatically and it will be on time. However, since I already have slips from the past, I just wanted to stay consistent and pay with a slip again. Either way, the window just seem so small.

Field : Finance/Quant, Location : Asia (English based PhD)

I am at the final 2 months of my PhD. I have a meeting with my professors (3 examiners) each week, working on my dissertation submission.

Each week I'm asked to revise something. Whether it be adding theory, or fixing some APA citation styles, it feels like I'm in an infinite loop of revisions. Basically, every change is cosmetic. The examiners seem to already accept the underlying content.

The funny thing is the examiners tell me this is exactly what it was like for them until the day before submission. Which seems a bit nuts. Presumably they too "passed" the passing quality a long time before submission, and were just killing time doing revisions until the last day.

Is this normal? Is this what it's really like?