Signup date: 01 Mar 2007 at 11:09am
Last login: 26 May 2007 at 8:12am
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What do u mean, 'working from home'? If you are still working from home on a PhD then surely it doesn't matter where u are working? But then again, maybe I'm missing the point....
I didn't teach or demonstrate during my PhD (I'm scared of Cambridge undergrads) and so my last job was back in 2003 (part time when doing my undergrad) - this went on a recent application form and I didn't get the impression that this was a problem at all...
Oh Laurzf1, sounded like u described my relationship with my boyfriend! Fortunately, he works in the computing department at my Institute and is used to hysterical PhD students who have managed to drop their computers, lose all their data etc etc ect so he was fairly prepared for me!!
This might be different for sciences, I'm not sure, but mine is a developmental biology PhD...
I'm writing the intro at the mo, and I'm not sure when its ok to cite review papers and when to cite the original papers?
Do you have to have actually read the original papers to cite them? (I mean more than reading the abstract and skimming the paper and then seeing a review and going, oh yeh, i knew that....)
Depends what you mean by pointless.
Are you gonna change the world? Nope.
Will anyone ever read the thesis except for the examiners? I've been told no.
But, at one point even if you can't remember now, you must have been sufficiently interested in your subject to want to dedicate a miminum of 3 years of extremely hard work to doing a PhD and finding out more about it.
Maybe thats the point?
Yes, like some of u said, I feel completely abandoned, as if my PhD doesn't matter.
Of course, everyone needs holiday...but 5 weeks? Now?? With no email contact???
Good thinking on the library idea Fluffy, I'll get on to that today
As for the whole departmental safe-guards/advisors...
Well, I've been trying those since I was about 12 months in when I realised I was getting zilch supervision...one thing I don't like about where I work is although I am registered to an Uni Department, I work in an affiliated Institute, where for some reason I seem to have far fewer people wanting to help me...
I've banged my head against a brick wall trying to get someone to listen to me - my advisor helpfully told me of my supervisor, 'oh well, everyone knows what she's like...surely you did before you joined?' NO!!! I applied cos I loved my science!
I definitely don't eat right.....I guessed cos I'm so short of money, I have found myself actually enjoying 8p noodles from Tescos! I keep telling myself that when I finish I'll start doing things properly again, like eating right and exercising. It does really feel like my life is on hold and all the 'normal' things in life will start again when I submit....
Oh, and along with those 8p noodles, a weakness has become cheap chocolate bisuits, so weight loss hasn't been a problem....
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