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Acknowledgements in Thesis

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

I do not like over emotion or feelings that border on insincerity, or overt religiosity:

I found this online, eww, (sorry if this is your acknowledgment page dear reader, but, y'know...)

"Last but not least, thanks be to God for my life through all tests in the past five years. You have made my life more bountiful. May your name be exalted, honored, and glorified."

:eyeroll:

Acknowledgements in Thesis

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

Quote From Sue2604:

I'm also going to thank my dog, who will have kept me company for thousands of hours, sleeping next to me every day as I work. Probably silly, but she's important to me and has helped me a lot - more than some others at uni who should've been helping!

:) that's great (robin)

The nocturnal workers' thread

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

Quote From Sue2604:

Hey Chrisrolinski

You're not here by yourself at least - look, there's lots of us online! And being on the other side of the world, I'll be working for the next gazillion hours today, so rest assured that there is at least one other person working, if everyone in the northern half of the world goes to sleep and you're still up.

You'll get there! Sounds like you have a lot on your plate at the moment, with travelling and doing all your other work, and it always gets like this at the end of the year, where we try and get everything done, it's just madness. Keep going! Think of something to look forward to - a bit of a break over Xmas? Visiting friends? And the next little while will go quickly. Chin up!

Thanks! Yes, I shall be able to stay with friends and my boyfriend for 2 weeks, and will take a week of that off for work. That is motivating me! just re-writing my first chapter, which was also the first chapter i wrote back in 08. and eww, the writing style sucks, which is good because it shows I have improved, but also takes a lot of effort to re-write!

good luck with your work and thanks for the encouragement!

Acknowledgements in Thesis

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

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Quote From fifi_fole:

my family (as a formality not out of wanting to)

yeah I am going to do this too, only because, really, it would look weird if they weren't mention and might reflect poorly on me in the minds of readers

The nocturnal workers' thread

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

ich bin hier wieder! sigh! (sprout)

Can anybody tell me if I can be a teacher in UK?

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

You wouldn't necessarily need to do a PGCE. Some schools take on graduates, which you are obviously, and train them on the job. You can approach schools or look out for these positions in newspapers.

Graduate teacher programme (training on the job whilst in employment)

http://www.tda.gov.uk/Recruit/thetrainingprocess/typesofcourse/employmentbased/gtp.aspx

doom and gloom

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

At the end of my second year a book was published in my field on ostensibly the same topic. The books was so new and I was strongly recommended that I read it ASAP. It was not available as a ILL or in the UL so I had to (insult to injury) pay 40 pounds for it. I read it and spent a night crying in the boyfriend's arms because I felt like my thesis was over. Over a few days I did a detailed list, actually quite mechanically, with columns, listing "same", "not done well", and "different", and "cra*". Unfortunately for me a big case study I had been working on I had to scrap. Fortunately there was a lot different and enough to crack on with. I don't even think about it anymore, and a year later reading the book again, we approach things from a completely different angle.

So, now it feels disastarous, but you can get over it. Just be willing to dry the eyes and ditch parts, but be willing to work on others. You might even find that reading something so close to your own work helps you really refine what it is that you are actually doing....

good luck (sprout)

The nocturnal workers' thread

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

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Thanks! i called it a day at 3 am and now I am up bright and sparky (!) (yea, no, not really!) ;) to start the day anew.

:p(sprout)

(robin) a cheery happy robin blithe to the concerns of doctoral hell, how I envy him/her;-)

How enthusiastic are you about your work?

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

Not really enthusiastic. If my thesis was a relationship I would be "over it" and be in that awful stage where one is waiting until they can bear to tell the other person...

Still a few more months. seriously though, I have got all the publications I am ever going to get out of it and so writing up is tortuous.

The nocturnal workers' thread

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

Urgh! I will be up for a few more hours yet working on a chapter due on friday before I have to fly to the UK for thesis stuff on saturday. plus i have a postdoc proposal to finish by friday, and by 12 am tmrw to have read a 30 page paper to lead with in a reading group.

Sigh. (sprout)

So I passed my viva...

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

Congratulations!

(robin)

The funding situation for MAs and MSc

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

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Going off my MA year, c.40 people took the MA, and only 3 were funded by a research council. Everybody else self-funded. I was given a university fees bursary that helped because I a narrowly missed funding, but def. in the humanities most people self fund. I took out a career development loan to pay the rest of the fees and living costs, and still had to work part time, so pretty much if you want a MA in the humanities you have to pay for it yourself somehow...

To get funding? A good to high 1:1 score, excellent references and proposal.

Modern art? For or against?

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

Quote From sneaks:

i don't expect anyone to pay for what i've done - its a load of tosh (up) :p

Heh! ;-):-)

Modern art? For or against?

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

Quote From sneaks:

hmm, I don't mind people faffing about with household items, arranging them in a heap and then saying that it evokes something or other. I do have a problem with them all laughing behind our backs cos they managed to con everyone into thinking it was worth anything. Tracey emin's unmade bed went for £150,000!!! I mean, they must all be laughing away thinking how hilarious it is. - I think I put modern artists in the same boat as people who produce house music.

And yet, at the same time, doctoral students and academics create work and expect it to attract monies and people outside think "what! you must be kidding, they must be having a laugh!"....

Modern art? For or against?

chrisrolinski 3392 posts
15 years ago

An "unmade bed" or other contemporary art installations or pieces don't just happen. Contemporary artists and critics (like other professionals trained in the humanities or arts) are schooled in a whole body of critical and aesthetic theory and a range of artistic and curatorial practices. Of course these fields have their own vocabulary and professional credentials and can be all but incomprehensible to outsiders, but no more or less then any other professional sphere. Because Modern Art, appreciated in white cube galleries since MoMa in the early 20thC, is deemed to take interpretative effort (i.e. inside knowledge and the social and cultural cache of education) it usually attracts derision, and critics point to older artistic schools of art - Impressionism, Dutch Masters etc etc - as better in quality and easy to understand. Of course, in reality, these own periods have their own detailed scholarship and insider knowledge. The "beauty" of art is never a stable and intrinsic quality. Horses for courses.