Ooh you must've been posting at the same time as me Button! That's great news! You will be fine, don't worry! Good luck with your findings chapter (up)

Good morning!

Sounds like you had a good day Button! Hope everyone else had a good day too, I had a lovely afternoon but it's back to work today!

I need to get my chapter wrapped up today, so that's going to be my goal today. I also have long distance supervision with another member of my team today to get feedback on another chapter so that will be interesting, although I hope it's not all bad because I feel very fragile and precious about my work at the moment (as those who have read the thread I posted on Monday will know!)

Good luck to all today!

Aaaah I see! I do remember someone asking you a long time ago but I am not able to hold information for very long these days!

Well at the risk of making you all hate me, I'm off to do some wedmin now, hurray! I will be back to the grindstone tomorrow, have a good day everyone! (up)

I'm sure you've been asked before Button, I think it was a while back, maybe even on this thread! How did you get VIP status? Just out of curiosity?

I wish I was still asleep to be honest but I've got a busy couple of days and I knew if I didn't get these marks done it would only annoy me later in the week!
:p

I've finished, at last! And no I didn't just give up and do a "Ross from friends" - B minus, B minus, B minus...! I'm still waiting to hear back from my sup so we'll just have to wait and see...!

It's a bit of a scary world out there at the moment so I'd go somewhere "safe" like Australia, NZ or something. Very far away and probably expensive!

Depending on when you'd go, what about the Scilly Isles? They aren't far away, but they require travelling by boat or air and if you hit the right time of year it feels like you're somewhere much further away. If it's good enough for Jude Law...!

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Hi,

Sorry to hear about the problems in your personal life, I hope they are now resolved.

With regard to your PhD situation, I'm a bit confused - exactly where are you in the application process, i.e. have you been offered a new PhD? Have your ex supervisors already given you a reference?

Or are you saying you applied for a new PhD, then quit it, and now want to apply for a new one?

Either way, all you can do is ask your ex supervisors and see what they say. The worst thing they will say is no, so you may as well just ask! Send them a nice letter/email and explain what has happened. I've applied for jobs/courses with references from ex tutors then not gone ahead and completed, so don't worry. People appreciate that life moves you forwards, backwards and all over the place!

Hope that helps somewhat!

Edited to correct my spelling mistake!

Hello,

Eugh still feel rubbish after yesterday :-( but I have a goal for today!

Goal - finish marking students by 12pm - it's taken me nearly 2 hours to mark the first group so I'm not doing very well!

Hope you all have a good day (up)

Thanks Batfink, I'm feeling a lot calmer after reading people's comments, when I first read the letter I was just blinded by shock! I do feel much better now :-)

Thank you Button, it was just a complete shock opening that letter! I will be sending an email tomorrow when I've had some time to consider, otherwise it'll just be an angry/upset rant! Full (up) to you both for making me feel better :-)

Hey Button, the wedding is in April so not long to go now! So did you change your name or have you kept your maiden name for your PhD?

Well I was having a great day, goal 1 complete and most of goal 2 too but I've just had a letter through the post from uni that has thrown me off kilter somewhat so I'm going to do something else this afternoon that doesn't need too much concentration like literature searching or reading (and probably eat some chocolate or something too!)

Thanks Delta, you have made me feel better. I think it's more of a shock that she's not said any of these things to my face, she's obviously been thinking them about me on the quiet! I don't know if I was supposed to receive this form to be honest as I didn't get one last year! It was written by an examiner but a record of what my DoS said about me whilst I was out of the room (it's a bit like a mini viva).

I think I will contact her about it, when I've had a chance to calm down and reflect a bit. Otherwise every time I see her or get feedback in the future I'll be thinking, really? Is that what you really think?!

I've just received the worst (well to me anyway) letter through the post - the paper record from my progress review. On the day, it went well, I had some comments but nothing too heavy, overall it was a very positive experience.

Today, I've received the record which states they are concerned about whether I have the ability to engage in enough depth, that my writing needs lots of drafts and I take up a lot of supervisory time. However, I am to progress to stage 3.

Is this really really bad? To me, it's awful. It says to me that they're worried about whether I can actually do it or not, and that I take up too much of their time with drafts and supervision and basically I'm wasting my time. But I'm so confused, why have they told me to progress and why was the meeting overall very positive? My sup has never said any of these things to me before. I'm wondering if I should contact her and tell her what I've received and that it's made me concerned, or whether she'd deem that a waste of her time too! I'm really shocked because we usually have a good relationship and she's very positive. I wonder if she was just having a bad day and I'd annoyed her or something? What do you think? I'm going to go and have a bit of a cry now! I was having such a productive day before I received this letter :-(

Hi, mine are integrated chapters, but the overall feel of the thesis is a bit different, I have 3 "analysis" chapters which focus on three stages of implementing a project. I've pulled in the literature throughout. However I would stress that I am going to receive feedback on the first of these three chapters on Wednesday so I may post back with something different after that! 8-)

Hello peoples!

Aaah wedding planning is very exciting but it's getting quite stressful now with all the bills arriving! I thought it would be great to get married during the write up of my PhD but now I'm not so sure! I don't want to be on honeymoon feeling guilty that I'm not doing any writing!

Hope you're all getting on ok today, I'm getting very cross with Word as it keeps underlining all my sentences in green and telling me I am using a passive voice! AAAARGH! Short of re-wording all my sentences so I sound like Yoda I can't make them go away! Anyway, I'm getting close to finishing goal 1 thankfully so I can go and have some lunch soon then crack on with the intro and discussion later on.