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Teek is right.  You're being ridiculous. They are saying 'this stuff' as a show of support you div. ;-)

Good luck! (yes, I'm aware of the irony here and I'm NOT being patronising!)

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Hello lovely people,

i was just wandering when it is OK to cite a paper as being 'in press'?

Is when you are in the process of writing it? Is it when it has been sent off and is in the process of being reviewed? Or is it when it has been accepted by the journal and is awaiting to be in the next issue?

Many thanks

lol, awsome

Let's not get side-tracked people, no need to start a thread within a thread...

Congratulations Emmaki, that's great news, now go change the world with your groundbreaking research!!

Shhhhhh, it's OK ((((hug))))

I can promise you it's never as bad as it seems. you'll be so surprised at how quickly people forget about these things. Believe it or not, your supervisors, this critic, everybody else there probably have better things to do than think about and judge you. The only person who's really going to remember what you did/said is you.

I know you're it a shi**y place today (mentally!), but you'll see the funny side of this one day soon.

Don't worry about it.

relief!(up)

I always have a stash of almonds at my desk. They can be pricy from the supermarket, but you buy in bulk from indian/ethnic cash n carry type stores.

I'm the same Bug, I've never been able to take criticism well.  I find i revert to a child-like state when it happens - toys out of the pram sort of thing.

Having said that, i am not as bad as i used to be. I think it's one of those things you can become hardened to.  I recon if you dust yourself off, start writing and GET IT DONE, you'll get your confidence back. And next time when criticised, you'll be able to handle it better and not take it so badly.  It's like building up a callus.

Also, if you don't know where to start, the beginning is always a good place to try. 
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Don't know about this for sure, but the Natural History Museum in London might have something. Because they are not a university, they don't award degrees, so you have to register with a univerity (usually imperial because it's next door to the museum) but you do your actual work and research in the labs at the museum. Check out the NHM website, there might be something there.

It's all about practice.  Everything is. Also, teaching isn't about being an expert in the teaching material, it's about knowing fractionally more about the material than the person/people that you're teaching - thus creating the illusion of being an walking bank of knowledge and expertise.

I concur with the others.  Don't say it with email, it's best to do this in person. Honesty can be a horrible process, but once it's all out in the open, it'll DEFINITELY get better.

Have a look at some Masters courses/modules at your uni. Find a relevant Masters degree, contact the co-ordinator, get a list of the courses/modules that are included in the degree, ask the co-ordinator if you can sit in on the lectures for the module(s) that you need.

Each module will probably run over a couple of weeks, with lectures and practicals, so it will feel like a short-course. It should all be at the level you need too, i.e. post-graduate level.

Just a thought...

It strikes me that in your description of option 1 and 2, you've focussed on the positives of option 1 and the negatives of option 2. Might be worth trying the other way round, i.e. describe the negatives of option 1 and the positives of option 2?

Life is scary buddy, be brave in whatever you decide.

Hello boys and girls, just felt the need to share,

I woke up at 4am this morning from a dream in which i was sitting in the lab counting test tubes. I couldn't get back to sleep because i was mentally doing the calculations for my PCR later today and i haven't been back to sleep yet. Think I'm beginning to crack...