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i'm in the twilight zone too! waiting for my viva. 'the powers that be' at my own uni are sorting it out

to keep myself sane. i'm focusing on the baby steps in preparing for my viva.

just heard this great interview on 6 music of prof. wiseman on his book called 59 steps, that dispels the misleading myths about self help. instead of focusing on for example passing an exam. instead focus seeing yourself revising. its the baby steps that will help you motivate. and not to daydream about the day you recieve your certificate, but instead focus on the steps that will get you there. and to focus on the day to day activities. which i've been doing :)

i think by gollly i might go out and by it!!

Smilodon, what is your daily viva preparation routine?

mine at the moment, i am going through each page of my thesis and summarising the key points. i hope to get it finished by end of july. and then i will start working on the viva questions :-)

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Hey Ruby, nice to hear from you, wow i'm suprised you're stuck in the twilight zone, i thought you would be long gone by now!!:-(

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hello everyone! just wanted a quick catch up with everyone. not heard from Armendaf in a while. i hope he is okay :$

my viva preperation strategy at the moment, is consisting, of :

summarising the important key points from each page of my thesis into a word document.
and also summarising each page into one sentence.


how is everyone else coming along?

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here you go !!

http://www.year-planner-calendar.wanadoo.co.uk/2009-year-planner-wall-diary-calendar-public-holiday-chart-free.htm

:-)(up)

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thanks Sinead! well it's going slowly. but at least i have started studying again :-)

i'm at the moment trying to summarise my chapters. and condense my notes to key words. im very bad at summarising. i want to write everything down lol

what have you got planned for today?

choo choo

i'll be inhabitating one of the cabins thank you :)

i want to get some studying done before i call it a day. its been a rather slow unproductive study day today! i want to get at least a few pages of summary notes written from my chapter

that's a nice idea :)

i definately need a thread like this, to remind me to keep going! i got tons of revision to do for my viva.

i took a little holiday break last week, now finding it abit tough to get back into revision /study mode again! but i've started today . hurrah!

my aim today is to summarise one of my chapters.

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Thanks Ju-Ju, Hazyjane, Bilbobaggins and Ruby for your really helpful advice and support really appreciate it!!

Ju -Ju - Thanks Ju-ju. well when my phd funding ran out, i worked just over a year as a RA and i saved up my money, and i'm just being careful with money..just living a simple life at the moment :)
nope its not affecting my career really, but i would eventually like to move on from this whole phd thing, its like having a constant cloud over your head. i'm still not decided what i actually want to do , to be honest. but would be nice to get out there and see whats out there in the world that i would enjoy doing.

Thanks Hazyjane. hmmm are you , who i think you are??? (wink wink) i mean, do i know you?
yeh it is abit scary not knowing when my viva date is, i'm on edge, thinking it can be anytime!
you're right , i should put more focus on my own thesis. i will start to do that :)
thanks for the tip about what your boss said, thats good advice.
thanks again for your help

Bilbobaggins, - WOW i really admire you, what with your adversities, you really are an inspiration. Thank you so much for your advice , its very helpful indeed!

Hey Ruby, sooo lovely to hear from you!!! Thanks for your advice, that is really good to know, you’re so right.

my sup didnt reply to my email (3rd attempt at emailing him). but this time, a prof from my own uni that deals with post graduate stuff, did reply and asked me when i handed in my thesis. i told him 30th october 2008, and how i havent heard anything about who my examiners are, and when my viva might be, or heard from my supervisor, so feeling abit concerned.

So the prof just replied again today and told me he understands my concern and he has followed it up and will update me asap. So now feeling abit nervous that my viva could be very soon! Yikes!! but also grateful that i finally have gotten a response from someone!!

Im not sure Ruby when it will be, senate house told me when examiners are given the thesis, the minimum time they are given is 3 weeks to read through a thesis, and maximum is like a few months i think. So i’m guessing my viva could be anytime from july 1st onwards. So i am hoping i still have one month left to fully prepare for my viva. in a way i think it will be good for it not to drag on too long, i'm already finding that i am forgetting what i did! it seems like such a long time ago that i wrote my thesis. i need to read through my thesis again. i did read through it a couple of months ago, but need to go through it again.

I’m going to cornwall tomorrow for a few days with some friends, for a mini holiday. im really looking forward to that :) But im taking my discussion sections from each chapter with me, so i can do some studying, will wake up early before everyone else and get in at least an hours worth or something.

I find that if i go a few days without studying, i lose my momentum and focus. and then its really hard for me to get back into studying mode again.

Thanks again everyone for your support and advice. You all are brilliant!

Kmille, welcome to the thread! sounds like you are working well on your thesis, great job! keep going :)

Armendaf good luck for your viva!!!!! (up)