I am in a publications lead department. I am a first year and I have no publications this year - I had one in my undergraduate year... and I have just had a paper rejected this week..it was for a really good conference. I dont mind as the reviews are really useful. How many publications should you aim to have by the end of your phd?

really.... i didnt think it was possible to get funding from your LEA once your a postgraduate. I will ask at the centre.Many thanks. I have a pda... which does help.. but its not enough apparently.

I have found out that i am quite dyslexic and feel quite disheartend by it. Are any of you dyslexic... have you got any tips?

i am becoming more and more forgetful...is this normal or am i just going abit mad. its been a tough week.... i was at the WWWConference in edinburgh - dont know if n e of saw it on tv. But on teh tuesday my cousin died at the weekend i saw my dying uncle and last night my laptop died - i just updated my endnote database with 100 new references :-(
I am now on an undergraduate PC in student halls not very far from having a nervous breakdown. I think my supervisor is a bit better now.

Yeh - i think i would nag the supervisor as well - telling him/her that you want to get the ball rolling.Be a fighter!

i dont really think the 9month report is driving me insane, i think its just everything! I am just sick of it - i seem to be obsessed with my phd topic... are you guys the same?

i am coming up to the end of the first year. I am thinking - 'whats the point' this thing is driving me insane. Its saturday and i am in the lab - trying to do my 9month report... without the help of my supervisors... ITS JUST LIKE AGRHHHHHHHHHHHHH why should i care. Alot fo my time is on this phd - i am in specialist groups, i go to networking events - this thing is driving me insane - and I STILL KNOW NOTHING.
And now they wantus to write a report of 4,000 words?!!?!/ how can u do one years worth of work in 4000 words? I am going insane. I truely am. My memory is going - am getting bored. AGRGH AGRH AGRH
WHATS THE POINT?!?!?!!? I Have nothing to show for this year!
Is it normal to feel like this almost at the end of ur first year?!

i am going insane

i have deadlines coming out of my ass.... so the friday feeling for me is one of dread.... that I will never finish what I have got to do...

i would like to apply for a sholarship. I have to get someone to write a statement of merit for me. What is a statement of merit?! ive tried googling - but nothing seems to come of it.

Is it basically 2 pages of how i fit the criteria?

gossip magazines... heat is going to go on my acknoledgements for keeping me somewhat sane...

good luck with it

if u were in engineering and a female then there would b lots of places that would fund you.

what did your supervisor have to say... was he/she shocked at what you had to say? did they try to talk u out of it?

what area of research are u in? I know this is an awful question but r u male or female ?