disinterested supervisors - feeling like you're, no, BEING in it completely on your own. It's a big responsibility and v. stressful. Also lack of money, NO results, nasty colleagues...

Hello sir /madam I completed MBA(Marketing).I want to do Phd in USA or Uk with 3year 6month working exp. please guide me inthis regarding my mail id is [email protected]

I'm just coming to the end of my 2nd year of my PhD, and I will probably stay on in london when I've finished. However, I know that at some point in the not-too-distant future I will be back up in Yorkshire, as there's nothing like being 5 minutes from the open countryside!

Flexible working hours. I'ma morning person and so get in at about 5am, and can be finished at 2pm some days. That means then I have time to do personal stuff in the evenings.

John, don't worry! I'm coming towards the end of my 2nd year and although I have some reults, none of them are what would be classed as 'final'. Admittedly, I have had some bad luck this year, but a PhD is a learning curve. Don't worry, all will become good, and if not as long as you can explain why experiments didn't work you should be fine.

Although generally happy, I've just started my second year and feel I should have accomplished more in my first year. I've got a few results but nothing spectacular and feel at this point I should be churning out hundreds of results. Any advice?

Studying chemistry at Nottingham Uni (glad I choose it, it's a good place), but currently at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China for 7 weeks for part of my research.

good luck and let us know how u get on!

Ok I admit it....it was what I meant

That wasn't quite what I meant, but you never know.....

Will you lot just look for a PhD yourselves. WE WILL NOT DO THE WORK FOR YOU!!!

What are you doing Doodles? where abouts are you now? still at Cranfield?

I am a chemist, I will be developing a method of testing how biodegradable organic waste is. This is for the purpose of landfil regulations. I think this may be similar to what you mean

Before I started I was somewhat disheartened by the volume of whining PhD students on this and the MSN forum. I realise now that the disproportionate number of discontent:content PhD students quite likely represents the lack of other media for students to voice their dissatisfaction and seek advice on sensitive matters. Anonymity also favours this medium for such purposes. Conversely, there is a lack of necessity for content students (i.e. the majority) to want to register their satisfaction on internet forums for everybody to see.

I started my PhD this week and couldn't be happier. Times are somewhat flexible, everyone is enthusiastic about what they do, and I'm finally getting paid (albeit modestly) for doing something I really love and passionate about.