Any ideas, tips, etc. would be greatly appreciated. As you can imagine, my confidence is completely lost...

I don't think your supervisors and your examiners want you to fail. If they say it is time to resubmit, then you should trust them.

I only include my academia profile in my business card, no twitter or facebook as I do not consider them academic....

My ideal holiday after I resubmit my r&r thesis is to catch up with friends in foreign lands... Maybe you should do the same.

I got an R&R, and my supervisor encouraged me a little bit by saying that so long I do what the examiners want, I will pass. Don't they give you the option of further minor corrections? They do in my uni.

It is absolutely normal, considering the fear that we have received after r&r. Surely though, your revised thesis would be better than your first submitted thesis. Chances are that the examiners will be perfectly happy with it; and if not, minor corrections will do the trick.

I HATE r&r too

After my personal R&R I sympathise. I think that we will manage. Just over a year for me, still haven't opened the thesis document. Every time I try to work on my thesis I get panic attacks. We will get there.

before you handed in your thesis?

Hi there

For us R&R students who are disappointed, confused, disheartened and the like, I found that the following link can give some generic instructions on how to act if one receives from minor to major corrections (including resubmission) - and some encouraging words to go with it.

Bottom of page: Dealing with corrections and revisions: http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/studyadvice/postgraduates/sta-vivas.aspx#corrections

On an off, this advice would be useful to students from any university.

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Hi Pineapple!!

Well, since you know that we both experience the same problem, I do face the same scenario... but do not worry too much about that. What I was told by my examiners was that the bits I am not going to use I should publish them later as journal papers... Could you do something similar? BTW, I have to delete about 15.000 words from mine and re-write them (though I have not received the examiners' report yet).

I think that if I had not started the PhD, if I had never gone to university even, I would be a proper housewife... That would have been my main role in society: mother and wife and housewife. Cleaning, cooking, patisserie, gardening, vacuuming, bearing children, raising children.

I think I am glad I went to uni...

Hi there Aipwith brains. Don't be disheartened. I have recently received an R&R and I am fighting to get the PhD. Perseverance is what we need.

Psychologists believe that the third Monday after the new year begins (i.e. today, note that this day is called 'Blue Monday' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_%28date%29) is traditionally the most depressing day of the year.

So, how's life treating you today?


I am feeling OK today btw, but this is because I keep myself busy.

I was really bad at school. I hated school. I loved university though. I learnt to love learning while in academia.