I am back in the game... all the way from sunny Srilanka at the moment.

Sigh

rubbish!

How did this go?

you do realise that infinity is the greatest value therefore infinity times infinity is still infinity!

Therefore whoever it was who said infinity first still remains there and the others merely reached there later...

That said .. this is my post

I was lucky. I work in the same department as a researcher. So for the last year and a half, my supervisors have been happy with me just working on my thesis. During the write up I have been especially lucky. I wasn't even expected to show my face in the department for weeks unless I needed to get a printout of the thesis.

Only use the terms conceptual and theoretical framework in making grant applications to make it look management-friendly.

People who can do real work make up frameworks. Conceptual framework is built from a set of concepts linked to a planned or existing system of methods, behaviors, functions, relationships and objects. Conceptual frameworks are used in computing.

Not sure what a theoretical one is.

getting Mia back from infinity.

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I got a crap references. One paragraph about my abilites and performances which were great. And then two about my lack of integrity and honour because I backed out of a already accepted PhD offer to do my current one.

I still got the PhD. Ofcourse my current supervisors knew me and the reference was only a formality. But even when the references put it all on paper, I still got the PhD position! and a job with the same university!

Yes Stu. But in your relationship, you are the guy and the PhD student. Men are allowed to go out with whomever they want!

In most cases, it is if the girl has a PhD then the guys in the research group tend to think: why is she not going out with an academic?!

My boyfriend has not gotten the complex of 'am I good enough for her' since we started going out ages before I started my PhD. So he knows that having a PhD, does not mean I am a genius in everything. However, it is getting tiring having to answer to every tom, dick and harry of the academic world.

Plus I just found out that one of my female colleagues broke up with her boyfriend because he got tired of all the questions and simply thought that her friends were talking behind his back about how she should go out with someone more educated. And he had an MBA!

Just image what it will be like at the end of your PhD in 100,000 words.

I always find their next question to him almost as much fun. "Do you enjoy what you do then?"

I come from an asian background as well. So there is then the question of "why isn't your boyfriend doing a PhD?"

I have often gone on work trips or parties with my boyfriend. On those trips, people I meet up with often get to meet my boyfriend. Inevitably, they ask both of us (or him) what he does and are often surprised that he is not in academia.

Do people in academia forget that there are other jobs out there which pay much better as well? Or do they just not mix with 'the others' (I have been seeing Lost).