Oh I don't know that no-one who comes here would use this sevice, over the years we've had quite a few who seem to think we should do their work for them for free - undergrads and Masters students included.

I think the mods should delete on grounds that its highly offensive to all the hard working regulars - failing that perhaps we should just ignore it and let it sink into PGF archive oblivion.

Isn't this illegal? Shouldn't the mods have deleted this by now? Blooming disgraceful practice: easy degrees for cheats who can afford it... Shame on you.

Don't deny it Teek, I'd recognise that beard anywhere.

Actually, Catalin, having a penchant for crap television is a proven sign of superior intelligence. I know this for a fact.

Here are mine

1. Eating pick and mix sweets in the cinema on a wednesday afternoon: it's my regular thing, can't wait for tomorrow!

2. Watching Come Dine With Me - I get reeeaaallly excited if there's a week I haven't yet seen...

3. Messing about on here far too much.

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double posting soz

Yeah, Sneaks, maybe it was the crazy lady from next door, maybe the woman with the white lightning had something to do with her too.

Loving the food and drink, it's all fabulous, ahhh heavenly, especially after all the meat we've been eating this week - aside from the canapés, I think feta, olive and pastry is to rich a combination - too many deep fat based flavours going on. I did find some cat hairs in my meringue though, so marks off for that - and I too am not sure about the ethics of cat slaves, although the whole scenario made me pee my pants with laughter (cue multiple incontinence jokes...). So I'm going for an 8.

Sneaks got a 6 from me btw, I was really put off by the sweaty dude lying on the dining table, plus the cleaner kept hoovering around me and I couldn't hear the conversation.

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Hello all you wonderfully arty humanities types.

I'm hoping you can clear something up for me: is publishing articles in prestigious journals more valuable to our careers than publishing prestigious book chapters? Or do you think they hold equal gravitas? I'm trying to fathom which would be the best use of my efforts.

Many thanks in advance.

My do was perfectly respectable! If Keith Floyd inspired...

The naked man thing only happened once on CDWM, and it got really low scores because people felt uncomfortable; however, I was at a conference once at which the starter of a mixed exotic fruit buffet was served from the naked body a young lady. Watching uncomfortable middle aged academics who had landed a seat at the difficult end of the table was priceless, worth all the poverty of PhD-ing.

I agree with Sneaks, they look like nursery school to me and they're soooo, I don't know, wet behind the ears. I teach them and it really does feel like I'm dealing with a bunch of school kids a lot of the time. But then again, I'm 40, so that's probably why too. I can't imagine going out wiwth any student though, it's just that I relate to them so differently to other people, I have a responsibilty towards them which does fel a bit like parenting.
I find it hard to meet people, I think lots of people do past the undergraduate stage of life. I'm not good at flirtng or looking interested either, so that probably doesn't help much.

I think it would be great if you spoke to your corridor girl, I bet she'd be really flattered and happy if you did. Let us know what happens.

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I think I my be an uber confident suck up, because I quite enjoy networking; I love my subject so I love talking about it, and I always get to know loads of people at conferences. I just chat to them about the papers and it feels quite natural. I think sending a quick email is fine, especially if they've given you their card, that's almost an invitation, I think. Keep all your contacts and then you can draw on them when you need them, or keep things going by circulating information like other conference alerts and such like. Networking and relationships were essential to my old job, so I think that's why it feels ok to me, plus, if you love your subjects it's just a big chance to chinwag with other people who do too, quite rare in my day to day experience.

Hi, this is something my sup addressed in my work a while ago. It's a grammaticall thing: concepts can't come together, they do not, as you sup suggests have agency, or, indeed, needs. I'm not ssure how I do it, but it's quite straight forward - just write something like 'in order for 'xyz' to take effect concept 'a' would have to be rejected'. I suggest you privelidge the human a bit more in your thoughts! I think it's a mind set thing. Clearly you were doing ok with this before so just look at what you used to do.

I'm really p'd off because there isn't anything massive going in my direct field, and there hasn't been since I started the PhD; maybe that means there defo will be something when I'm further on, and have more to show off. I'd love to organise something myself at my department, later on, maybe.