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endnote query...duplicated entries...
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my endnote entries have duplicated themselves....how do I sort this out?

I suspect it is a result of loading my library on my usb pen onto my new laptop with a new copy of endnote....

New Year Resolutions
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Go swimming to tone up, and get my academic reading done.

en of term supervision and review in 58 minutes.....
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Phew! Made it through another term...

en of term supervision and review in 58 minutes.....
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argh..........

Work or Play
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Sorry, it should read:

Sa! Det var det, det.

So! That's that then!

That's about all the energy I can muster at 01.47

Work or Play
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I made that transition when I got funding in september after a year of self funding.

Now the phd is very much work - and what seemed a pleasure a few months ago is no hellish. Oh well, "det var det, det".

Introvert or Extrovert?
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I have a muddy brown colour hair. I used to dye it with henna to try and darken it to darker brown. But it looked more red. Anyway, yes - I would like to be blonde like my sister....

Should I do a PhD?
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A PhD is a personal, often self-made, hell. Whatever reason you do it for - make sure that you can justify it to yourself, even on the rought days.

The Xmas Thread
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That sup sounds like a jerk. You should take Boxing Day off.

Has anybody heard of these degree-awarding colleges???
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I actually find some of the animal courses oddly appealling. Though of course, I'm not sure a certificate from ACSEDU would quite replace a PhD from my own institution....

The Xmas Thread
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Wow!

I can bore people for hours on parrots and elephants...

The Xmas Thread
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Oh, what kind of animals?

Mine are all dead - well, were living, and stuffed.

2nd year misery
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I'm trying to get my current piece of 3,000 words done by Thursday evening. I've procrastinated so much, yet I know what to write, I just can't structure it properly , and I keep getting told to improve me abilities to structure. I feel everything that I have produced this term is mediocre - I just wanted this to be the piece that impresses my supervisors. I'm going to motivate myself to do this piece by tmrw and then steel myself for feedback next week. I can do this, I have to. Thankyou for your encouragement.

As Girl's Aloud sing in "Call the Shots" - "I won't cry because I've stumbled through this far".

2nd year misery
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I feel really desperate today. I feel like everything I write is infused with mediocrity and is opaque. I actually cried today. I'm supposed to be handing in a piece of work tmrw that is supposed to be summming up what I want the thesis to be, its research questions etc I'm about a 1/4 of the way through. It's so hard. I find the PhD process terrifying. I'm definately in a slump.

The Xmas Thread
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I flee my desk on Dec 18th. And return Dec 27th -31st. And then again on Dec 2nd....