Is this normal/am I behind?
Hi all, first time posting. I'm in my first of a 4 year PhD and have no sense of what should be expected (nothing to base it off). When I started the goal was: year 1 meta analysis, year 2 observational quant, year 3 quant eval of intervention, year 4 qual. These were actually put in the PhD ad and predetermined for applicants to match funding.
I'm 7 months in and have pre-registered my protocol and nearly completed a very complex data extraction for the meta analysis (doing everything to gold standard), currently ahead of schedule. I've also done 20/30 ECTs needed over the 4 years on my supervisors request. Outside of this I have contributed to a broader research project as well.
I have to prep my 4 year thesis proposal, but this has now become a more complex thesis, with a novel model development and testing for paper 2 and application for paper 3. I agree that this is much stronger but it puts a lot of pressure on me and I am feeling like I haven't done enough and that I'm behind or failing.
Any guidance or sense checking would be hugely appreciated. I am meeting with my supervisor soon and want to have a sense of how I'm doing outside of it as I'm a bit out of sorts.