How could you have only got 15 points on that game!!
I think we should start a competion to see who can get into the top 10 first.
Make sure you use your forum name so we know who's who though.

There's gotta be something in it for everyone though, so...hmmmm let me think. I KNOW! Whoever gets into the top 10 gets to have Walminski's 24 pack of Carling! GAME ON!

Who's in? :-s

Not that I'm going to do this, but...

What happens if you start research at one uni and then decide that the uni isn't for you? Is it possible to still use your old proposal to apply to another institution, or does it somehow become this uni's property? (resulting in having to choose an entirely different topic?)
If I ever decided to do this myself, I would feel a bit guilty about it.
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Your research sounds quite interesting. Thanks for the suggestion too!
Well remembered - I am in my first year. Enjoying the work so far but it's a bit daunting because everything is so shiny and new to me. My research is quite philosophical and very, very specific to one small area, so I can't give too much away, but I'm sure more will be revealed as this forum evolves. :p

*A wrapped up present from a relative just fell off the dining table (!) and something inside it sounded like it smashed into a million pieces :$ *

Why are you giving everyone your email?

Eska, I think SAEEDPAR wants to give you some love... ;-)

Hi Eska, I was reading another thread and noticed that you're studying national identity in film. I was wondering about what types of identity theories you are looking at. Is it all mathematical/based on logic (qualitative sameness, etc...), or are you looking more into personal identity? I'm trying to get to grips with different ideas about identity and I'm not too sure where to look. My knowledge on the subject is quite poor, so I was wondering if you knew of any good books that might be worth reading.

Has anyone else got themselves sooo stuck in a rut, whereby you've spent AGES studying something thinking that it might be relevant, only to find that you've completely wasted your bloody time!!!!!? :-s :-s

It's definitely the darker side Bilbo. Sometimes you get little pockets of fuzzy white light (when you finally understand something), but most of the time I feel IN the dark. I suppose that's the fun of humanities though - clawing through the sub-subjects blindly until you eventually get to the light at the end of the tunnel, where you can see how it all magically relates back to your own subject. I'm doing literature, but somehow I've got myself muddled up in Aristotle's 'Physics'. Oh boy. No moths fluttering around in circles here...

I know what you mean. I live with my partner who is studying for a completely different qualification. He has deadlines to meet which are set by the department, and so assumes that his deadlines are more important than mine just because mine are personal daily or weekly deadlines/targets.
I think you have to be really vocal with them, and drill it into their heads that your work is just as important. Maybe you should just tell them that a condition of the scholarship is that you are expected to treat your studying as a full time job.

Seeing as some of the research related worries and advice doesn't really apply to what we're studying, I thought that it might be really helpful to start our own little humanities thread! :-)
I'm not sure if there are many of us out there in the wild, but if we regularly check this thread we might be able to help each other out a bit...

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