Hi all,

Is it normal to have days when you think 'PhD...your kidding right? Why on earth would you think that you can do a PhD'? My confidence sometimes takes a real kicking and I think that I'm really not up there. I think it has something to do with always having to question myself, and then when you meet with your supervisor everything is inspected and gone through step-by-step. It then feels like your back to the drawing board and starting again (although I know it will benefit me in the end). Maybe I'm just at that wall and tired.

How do you keep positive? 8-)

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS!!

Well Done (up)

Hi all,

Please don't all laugh at me but I was wondering what is the difference between a literature review and a literature survey?

Thanks!

I enjoy my trips to the blog, and even if it was a hoax, which I don't believe it to be, it makes me giggle! Keep going!

Hiya, hopefully it will be a series of short films, very character driven...well thats the plan anyway!

I am doing a practice PhD in animation. Hopefully will have a film, or development of a film which relates to my research at the end of it!

Take some time out if you can, get away, again if you can. Hope you get to feel better soon!

Shani, totally understand the only a 'student'. I find myself when taking to friends in the evening who work full-time who say how exhausted they are, telling them of how much I have worked. I find myself trying to push out the images they may have of me watching daytime TV and not getting dressed until midday, which I'm sure they are thinking!

Today I have just been overcome with the urge to sleep, it's as if my brain is saying 'no more...please'. I made myself go to the shops to try and get some fresh air and wake up some. Got back home sat down on the sofa and I was gone...flat out for an hour! Missed Countdown!

Is this common, anyone else experienced this?

Ahh the 80's and big hair! I was a hairdresser back then and would go through tins of hairspray a week. What was great then was in the mornings. Just peel the pillowcase from the heavily lacquered fringe tip the head upside down, spray hairspray on the roots within an inch of it's life and hey-ho your ready to go. (sideways out of the door)!

Memories!

I sit here...blank!

I think it's more fear. Its my first conference paper and I just feel sick to the stomach. I know giving a paper is for most a step outside the comfort zone. I keep telling myself that it's only an hour and half out of my life and I may enjoy it, but then I feel...well...scared. I'm not going to pinpoint this on being dyslexic as I know most of us dread the thought of reading outloud. I'm not on my own here am I?

I know that giving a paper is key to my PhD...but I just feel like running in the other direction. Feel like a teenager at school and not wanting to be there, and I'm leaving it to the last minute. This is normal right?

Anyway, thought I would post on here instead of talking to myself and making it worse. I just have to do it!

Olivia, I also had one of those hair days yesterday and rang to get it cut. It's driving me mad, going to have it all chopped off as all I do is tie it back with a pen! Although I have to wait till next week (funds ) I am looking forward to having a coffee made for me and reading through a trashy mag and not have to take notes.

Wahoo some normality!

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

I am doing my first interview tomorrow, filming it as well. But I'm really nervous, what I just sound like a complete idiot? Anyone else doing interviews, any top tips?