best of luck, i'd suggest hanging out with them and directly asking them questions like, how's your phd going, is your experience in the UK/uni/department what you expected? leading questions like those. hope that helps.

am an international student, but i've done all my uni studies here, so i might not be able to relate to what new international phd students experience coz i haven done uni anywhere else.

i would expect answers like communication issues, cultural differences, dilemmas in how to relate to supervisor..stuff like that.

when is your interview? i could ask around..

i guess thats why you haven't presented a paper yet?

could you present my paper for me spengler?

conference paper is like a journal paper, only it's not so perfect - coz ideally you are presenting it to get views on how to improve it. in the real world tho, it is expected that it is ready for publication.

oh, does publishing an article in a book, diminish the originality of your thesis as opposed to a stand alone article? they are offering to publish our articles.

i just did some 600 words.... hopefully more tomorrow. 6000 is the target.

hey, i feel like my abstract was accepted by mistake. i literally have ten days to write a paper on an area am not too familiar with.
any advice to how to survive this. the thought of cancelling my presentation seems so attractive right now, but trouble is, conference programmes is out with my name and unwritten paper's title on it.

what to do????????????????????????????

fraud... that's what am researching. without giving away too much.. .

not being mean or anything, but aren there any international phd students who can do the job? they are mo in touch with the issues they face.

3 hours a day max.

am also writing my paper alongside the lines of my research. i don't wanna stray too far off. I don't know if that will be the case tho eventually.

Williamson! interesting we're both on Oxford road. Simon building- that's engineering and Limegrove - languages. Wonder what your research is on. yap, i love manchester. lot's of stuff happening here, a lot mo lively than Durham (my old uni).

thanks. i will check it out.

depends. i taught first, second, third years and some masters exchanges students in my first year. the teaching itself is fulfilling if you're well prepared. if it is closely related to your research or a basic module in your subject area, then it only takes about 3 to 6 hours to prepare - in my case. if it is a totally new area - it could take 3 days coz you have to learn the stuff from scratch and know it well enought to teach it to someone. maximum i have done is 4 hours a week, since i began. the down side for me has been my age. freshers often think that am also coming to the seminar and the students who look older than me try to bully me. some of the mature students feel offended by the fact that am teaching them. all i can say is go gal, you can do it! aim to survive - not to perfectly teach. at least that works for me, and helps me get my priorities right.

does anyone know whether i can subsribe to online classes in econometrics?

i submitted a successful abstract sometime back.i'm hoping to get the paper done by the end of the month. mine was just about the proposed content of my paper and how am going to deal with it. best of luck.

by any chance, seeing that you're in manchester, might we be going to the same conference? mine is in mid november. when is yours?

thanks.

hmm... so am normal.. . the urgency to get done with this phd and leave this place and has just become a priority.