would you pay it for me H?

hey. thanks guys for all your suggestions. nop. i can't attend uni workshops. i will try finding a friend to help. they charge £5 for workshops, which at the mo is not easy spending after i just bought it for a whopping £80! i still haven got over that!

thanks for the tips. Any more stuff i should know?

Hey guys, does any one know an easy to read endnote user guide. I bought this CD without a guide and installed it into my laptop. I can't see any difference in my work. I'm obviously supposed to do something else. but what?

trying to. borrowed some books from the lib :)

Sheena, my two supervisors were not very nice with me initially. One really shouted at me when he was reviewing my work and the other one sayed he'd rather not discuss my work at times. So, the first one, i ask to calm down. I also pointed out that it is quite discouraging when i do the required work and then i spend an hour getting shouted at about small mistake, e.g. a missing footnote!! Anyway, the supervisor doesn't shout at me since. We have a descent discussion these days. He said that he thought that was what usually worked for students - shout at them, then they do the work. The other one, i told him that what he does is quite discouraging and he since takes an interest in my work. So, maybe you shouldn't quit. Just ask them to ease up on you. The pressure for me initially was working within their deadlines, so we decided I would hand in work as and when I had it ready and i find that has really motivated me to be more passionate about my PhD, coz i feel that am doing it for me & not for my supervisor.

hey, i must say then that I count myself lucky. I am single therefore I do not have to do a lot of explaining to anyone about how and why i spend my time the way i do. My family are also quite laidback so I try to get them involved in my PhD life, telling them about my research and supervisor meetings. I think they just trust me to handle it and feel they do not know enough to discuss it. Today for the first time in my life, me being daddy's girl, i asked my dad whether he thinks i should put my paper up on an academic database for reviews and he apologised for not knowing and said i should ask my supervisors. I always thought daddy knows all! am having to grow up now :(.

are you considering quiting?

am sorry to hear that Jewel. Try expressing your interest in teaching to your faculty and maybe something will come up.

pea, just remember that the student's aren't your priority. Your priority is your PhD. Whether or not they wanna study, it's their life. You have your good degrees, you're there to get some teaching experience, which you are getting, that to me is enough. Where the students end up is their own business- not yours. I hardly prepared for my undergrad tutorials and i still got a 2.1. All am saying is, each student has their strategy. Most of them, to read 24/7 two weeks before exam. So let them be. :).

am jealous..

where's yucatan guys?

have you tried other faculties or neighbouring unis and colleges? it ain't that bad as long as you get control of the room. am actually almost starting to enjoy it :)

i wake up at about 3pm guys! am trying to change my ways. i find that motivation is not so much the issue..like discipline and resisting the isolation feeling that makes me log onto msn and yahoo messenger and chat til 3am! i decided to be gentle with myself. as long as i do 500 words a day like someone on here suggested, i don't care when i do them. timetables don't work for me.

i teach as well Pea, and i empathise with what you are saying. i try not to get wound up by the students who never come prepared. mine are worse they try to hit on me!! and bully me..coz i look younger than them. so i would say, try to see it this way. you are there trying to survive the teaching as much as they are trying to survive the seminar. if they haven't prepared, move on to the next question. if they haven't prepared for any, ask them to leave as there is nothing to discuss. whether they pay fees or not, your job is not to give a lecture, it's to check what they know. if you prefer an easier tactic, ask them to discuss what they know. then elaborate on it. who cares! you are being paid! whether or not they know their stuff ;). who'd think teachers think like that. maybe i shouldn be teaching, haha.