I don't have much advice for you really, but can sympathise with your situation. I am now 15 months into my PhD and am currently 5 months behind on my dissertation which was due at 9 months. It's soul destroying. But, better to get things done well than on time. I'm hoping i can catch up during my experimentation phase, but who knows.

My office often has a bad atmosphere too, caused by two conflicting strong personalities - mine and one others. I try to ignore it, and just keep plodding along, but it's uncomfortable to be there, and i find it hard to work at home.

So yeh, no real advice, just empathy! Even though i'm so far behind i'm still giving myself time to do the things that keep me sane (in my case, this means going to the gym, going to see live music and playing with my pets). If i let these things drop and spent all my time working i know that i would go crazy. I constantly feel like i'm on the verge of going over the edge. So i guess my only real advice is to find the things that keep you sane, and stop you thinking about work for a bit and make sure you have time for them.

Also, sometimes you have to say no to things, especially if these are extras. If your sup is asking you to do them, then disucss with them and say that you are feeling a little overwhelmed by the amount you are doing at the moment. If it is someone else, then just say that you don't have time to do the job well, so on this occasion would have to say no - this leaves you open for offers in the future, but just means at the moment you can't fit it in.

Good luck. Keep positive. PhDs have ups and downs. You may be on a down at the moment, but you'll get back onto an up. The key, is to ensure that there are more ups that downs, otherwise it may not be worth it.

Thanks :-)

I think i've managed to do it in SPSS.. but i wish i could figure this out in R. I much prefer it. Dammit. Oh and the results were non-significant. Also dammit.

Hi, i'm after a bit of stats help from someone a little brighter than me....

So, i've run an experiment as follows (to retain anonymity the types of data/categories have been changed): There were two groups who used system A or system B (i.e. my between groups variable). And i want to investigate the effect on their output score (between 1 and 100) over time. So, i took note of the score at 4 time periods - at the start, after 5 mins, after 10 mins and after 15 mins. So, score was my repeated measure.

I need to analyse this (preferably using R, though SPSS is also available to me), but my sticking point is that i have unequal sample sizes (agh!). So, there were 21 people using system A and 24 people using system B (I didn't design it this way - unfortunately had to discard some data).

So, i think i need to do a one-way repeated measures ANOVA for unequal sample sizes. But how?!?!?

Can anyone give me any hints? I've tried this r tutorial series (http://rtutorialseries.blogspot.com/) which is very helpful, but doesn't quite help me out on the unequal sample sizes - i looked at the unequal size section and the discussion of Type I or Type III confused me no end.

Thanks in advance,
Frog

I wish i could afford to live alone. I have lived with the same boy for 2+ years now, it's like living with your boyfriend but having none of the associated good bits.

I have thought about getting someone else in (i rent the place from my mum and he lodges with me - he pays more to live there than i do, but is till on quite a good deal), but my biggest irk as an undergrad was being kept awake late at night, and though he has the worst taste in music, ever, he does turn it off by 11ish. And he has never, ever, ever had a gf back keeping me awake with *those* sorts of noises. So, i'm going with it's better the devil you know. Cleaning up after him is less irritating than being kept awake when i'm trying to sleep. Will continue to try and win the lottery though! Or find a boyfriend who wants to move in. Neither alternative seem very likely at present though!

I haven't been able to test this (i'm using word for mac, and the interfaces are quite different) but hopefully this will help....

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/send-powerpoint-handouts-to-word-for-printing-HA010225262.aspx

Sorry I don't have access to that one either... Looks interesting though (she says even though she doesn't understand all of the words in the title...)

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So, the new academic starts soon (or has started for most of us), as a now 2nd year PhD student i'm in the process of completing my literature review (should had been submitted by end of June, but that's not a massive issue i'm told) and preparing my first experiments. The first of which is being run in October, with a fixed, immovable date.

For me, the Autumn term is always a bit crazy as it's the only opportunity for me to teach in the entire year (all the modules that i am competent in are taught in term 1) so i'll be doing 9 hours of demonstrating each week as i have quite a big credit card debt that needs clearing. But then, on top of that, i am taking on some lecturing (of a subject i don't really fully understand) as the staff member who used to teach that module quit unexpectedly. Thankfully i'm not teaching the whole course, but i will be doing about 8 hours of lectures to MSc students and leading the practical classes (another 8 hours worth). Eeeeek. Plus, i'm on the organising committee of a conference that is going ahead in October.

So, i'm predicting a stressful 3 months. Not helped by the fact that i don't have a weekend free now until the middle of November, so i'll have to get all my research done during the week, and the timetable is such that i will basically be teaching all day thursday and friday.

I fear i may die.

Anyone got any advice? I keep telling myself that it's good experience and if i'm going to become an academic i'll have to get used to juggling a crazy workload like this. I wouldn't be so stressed about it if i was entirely confident of the material i'm going to be lecturing on - but i suspect it's going to require quite a bit of preparation work from me (though thankfully the lecture notes have already been prepared).

It's also not helped that one of the classes i demonstrate on is changing so that it involves R rather than SPSS. So i've got to learn how to use a whole new stats package as well. Brilliant!

I'm going through phases of thinking "oh it'll be fine, you'll just wing it, it's good for you" to being in blind panic at what i have taken on.

(Oh and of course this is ignoring the fact that my lit review and proposal dissertation needs to be submitted asap and i have a book chapter that is currently being reviewed, and if accepted will need to be revised before November).

And also, i've taken on a course at the uni that assesses my teaching so i'll end up with a qualification by the end of the year - which has a couple of compulsory afternoon courses to be completed as well.

Yabahadadbarbjb akjhakvnfknaavk.

So, who else is preparing for a crazy, mad term like me? Let's join together and keep each other relatively sane.

Good luck! Have fun :-)

Crikey, i guess it means i have been at this for a year now. Jeez... That's a little bit scary.

Muchos gracias :-)

Hi,

Does anyone happen to have access to this:

Kendall RA, Carterette EC (1993) Verbal attributes of simultaneous wind instrument timbres: I. von Bismarck adjectives. Music Perception 10: 445–467

Happy Sunday :-)

Froggy

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I'm not sure why that posted 4 times....

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