*giggles like a schoolgirl* @ Stu

Stu & Mia, I have a spare slot next Friday (cancellation) if you two would like to get married? Perhaps FindAPhD would sponsor the event and pay your marriage fees?

Are we all invited? Yay!

Is my hubby invited too?

Actually.. I was hoping you were both virgins. I only marry virgins.

Yeah he is invited!! You can divorce him on the same day.

This lot are even more barking than me! If you're doing a scientific PhD methinks you need at least the proposal to guide you in the right direction?!

I'm studying a specific bacterium but I'd swear that you could get a London bus to fit through my PhD advertisement!!!!

The proposal that I was given certainly was NOT a "spoon-feed job" either... about a dozen lines of "Year 99; identify y = 9 months work" stuff...

If it's a science PhD do ask for the proposal! You'll be tilting at windmills otherwise! Best of luck!

But Alan Rickman was going to be my second husband!!!!

Just get reading about your topic - it honestly does help. I have come up with so many ideas since I started reading, and it has clarified a lot about my PhD that I was slightly confused about earlier. Get over yourself.