good for you sjo4. i'm just half way. planning to put in two more hours work and get up early tomorrow. have a goodnight. clowning - you've got company. sounds like you're making progress.

going to get a cuppa. tea break everyone.

what did you think of the apprentice eviction last night. i thought claire was crap and she should have left. she was only lucky to get away. meanwhile, i really don't like jennifer or alex, or what's the other girl's name who is always attacking Lucinda?

thanks everyone. all the best Danzig.

thanks everyone. am ploughing on with the corrections. i have done a fair bit of work. On tuesday 22nd, i worked between 12 noon and 7pm. Wednesday 23rd was rather slow, i worked for about 4 hours between 1pm and 6pm. Today 24th i worked from around 12 noon til whenever i sign off. i'll be working on an overdrive to finish corrections and hand in tomorrow. who else is working tonight?

Jola, i also feel very average most of the time. so i guess that makes two of us.

that's the way to go Grantino. nothing can beat the feeling of handing in a chapter. all the best. just keep going, you'll start to enjoy it. if it makes any difference, i'll be working on those corrections tonight. so you're not alone.

my first paper got accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal subject to making some corrections!! am really happy because this paper is based on some of the findings of my thesis. am hoping that this is a sign of better things to come. :-) only have two days to do the corrections tho. :$

was off on Friday and the weekend. i just received good news earlier today. my first paper got accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal but with corrections to do. its based on one of my rejected chapters so i hope that is a sign of better things to come. looks like i have to get on to word sooner than i thought.

hope your work is going well Grantino. i have been dong some reading and learning some of the maths i mentioned. so far so good. i plan to reopen my word documents next week after i have finished a lit review. doing it before then will be a bit discouraging. not sure i filled in my diary on Thursday and Friday. lets see..

i remember marking some essays in a subject i hardly knew, coming up with a marking scheme and then after reading them i couldn't figure what mark to give each essay as it was hard to tell if they were good or bad, so i went with my gut instict all the way. my worst fear was if the students compared their marks and i had given a normally good student 40% and a poor student 60% or if they'd plagiarised each others work and i gave them totally different marks. even worse was the look on their faces when they got them back - for some it was like their world had ended. just mark them and give them back at the end -NEVER AT THE BEGINNING -of the seminar or their moods will make them sabotage the seminar. even better tell them you still have a few to go and put them in their pigeon holes to collect the following day . that way you'll have trouble free marking. hopefully you don't have to teach them much after that.

by the way i haven't read all previous threads, so excuse me if i missed something.

for those of us who come from other continents, its tough. really tough. i empathise with all of you. some more than others especially those who can't just wake up and buy a ticket and go home.i'd say persevere. try to enjoy it. i always think, each day spent is closer to the day i'll go back home. so it can't be that bad. by the way, having been in the uk for a couple of years, i can say that it isn't a bad place, though it will never be like home to me. you have to take the initiative to enjoy it. go places etc, people won't come to you. try going out to them.

thanks Grantino. it's great to know am not the only one redoing chapters. today i worked from 11am to 5pm. still trying to get my head round some maths.

thanks Grantino. it's great to know am not the only one redoing chapters. today i worked from 11am to 5pm. still trying to get my head round some maths.