Frankly, I think the person interviewing you was on a power trip and so don't be too hard on yourself. Look to the other interviews, OK - so you didn't get the posts but you appear to have interviewed OK.

I once went to an interview, armed with my qualifications and was told they had no interest in seeing them as with computer technology I could have produced them myself!!! I was livid and contacted HR on my return home and they were fantastic, said that shouldn't have been allowed to happen and actually encouraged my to put a formal complaint in.

Hi,

You seem to have been through a lot. If your health still isn't great, I would suggest withdrawing for another year if you can, as this will take some of the pressure of you. If you are able to do this, I would also suggest you try to do some of the write up in this time as well but easy does it.

10 Bedrooms? That's not a house it's a mansion!!!

Thanks for explaining Bilbo and Dunni73, it makes sense now.

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Thanks for all the replies. I'm slightly confused. Did some of you do a reference section or a bibliography section, or both?

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Thanks, that's good to know as I think mine should be about the same. I hope you don't mind me asking but how many pages was your bibliography?

How many pages is / was your thesis? EXCLUDING references, appendices etc

I KNEW you would!!!! Fantastic!

Is it close to the work of the examiner in terms of writing style etc? I know nothing about my examiners but constantly question what I've written, consider possible things that could be thrown up at viva and try to address these in the thesis. My writing style is common I think and so I've no concerns about that. Basically, write your thesis to please your examiners as your fate is in their hands, others should be of less concern. Look at your examiners writing styles, research them and do what you need to do to pass!

I'm not sure what stage / year you're in and it's probably too late this year but could you not apply for another funded PhD elsewhere and forget about this one by omitting it from your CV?

Is there any way you could get through the PhD by having your supervisor still 'officially' on board but you have the knowledge and skills to make it on your own?

Terrible position to be in. Hope it works out.

Could you 'officially' go part time (reducing the registration costs) but work on your project 'unofficially' full-time?

Thanks Ady, that's good advice. I've made bullet points and will expand on them but will take the rest of the night off.