My 5th (external) supervisor acts like my 1st supervisor. The others don't act like supervisors at all.

you forgot F- All of the above

besides, we don't need to be thanked. I was only joking (I believe DanB was not serious either)

In my experience, August is the dead month. All the academics I am in touch with always take their holidays during (and almost all of) August.

errrr...hmmmm....ok yeah I found one. There are 4 giraffes on the FindAPhD banner. Just in case someone was wondering why we don't have any, I wanted to point out that the team thought about it first; and yes, we have giraffes on the site.

DanB, after you mentioned that, I searched the forum, and there is not one single message from Postgrad team on theanniversary21's threads.

Good, there is nothing to worry about anyway. However I wouldn't go as far as taking a bottle of gin and 6 glasses to the viva if I were you. It might not please the committee. Just in case....

Let us know if you need any help. And congratulations for achieving the end of your first year.

I hope it's going well DanB.

:-(

Thank you for your replies. Very useful.

Hi. I need your opinion on something. I know it is not ethical to submit the same paper to different conferences but I am not sure if it applies to the following: I am going to submit an abstract for a poster to be presented at an international conference (so it may not even get accepted). In the meantime I received an invitation to present at a smaller conference in UK. Because of the way things are going, I can only talk about the same results of the same event. As one of them is going to be a poster and the other is a paper, would it be ok to present the same thing at these two different events? Thank you in advance.

lol @ Tricky

mc2006, what sort of diagrams are you after? I use Adobe InDesign to make my diagrams and I really recommend that if you like designing your own.

sylvester, Tumble Driers are the worst things in the world after guns and bombs in my opinion. Why don't you buy a couple of radiator airer/attachments and dry your clothes on them in the winter?