Yes you do, in the sciences anyway.

congratulations; a pass without corrections is certainly something to be proud of.

I felt exactly the same. As I had a postdoc lined up, with flights booked for 4 days after the viva, I had to do mine pdq! I would advise to do them as soon as possible whilst everything is fresh in your mind. The only thing I regret is not taking a holiday between the end of my PhD/start of my postdoc

Sorry to hear that. If you can get funded for a second PhD then the game isn't over, but I would imagine it would be hard to become an academic researcher. If you want to go into industry then I would suggest applying for jobs instead of starting a new PhD - a lot of companies have good in-house training schemes. Best of luck.

I don't know which area of chemistry you are in, but I did my PhD in organic chemistry. I often felt the same as you, and to be honest didn't really put in much effort until the last 6 or 7 months of my PhD. Having said that, I have published 4 papers from my PhD work because what I did do worked well. Others in my lab worked much harder than me but still haven't published a thing because their project wasn't working. This doesn't mean you shouldn't work hard, just that if the chemistry works then you don't really need to put in as much effort. Looking back, if I had put in more effort how many publications could I have now? Something to think about maybe.

My external picked up on every typo in my thesis! He was fine about it though, as long as they were corrected for the final version

I think from about the age of 14 I knew I wanted to do a PhD. When I was choosing my A-level options at school I told my teacher I wanted to do a PhD in chemistry. He laughed because he thought I wasn't good enough even to go to university; how wrong was he! I think if you want to do something badly enough anything is achievable.

My corrections were approved about a week after I submitted them - I suppose it depends how busy your internal is!

I would say (certainly in a science subject anyway) that having the supervisors name and anyone else who contributed to the content of the paper/book chapter should be listed as an author or at least acknowledged. I do find it strange that the editor has been added too though...

My soft bound thesis didn't have anything written on the spine - all of the information was on the front cover. I think the date doesn't really matter because you can change it after. When I submitted I put the month/year of submission, whereas on my final hard bound thesis I put the month/year in which the degree was awarded.

You usually get to see the viva/thesis report a few weeks after the viva itself. As long as you pass the viva I suppose it doesn't really matter what they say in it....

Hi,

Sorry to hear about that. To be honest I am not sure of an answer to your question, but as a fellow organic chemist I thought I should say something.

Just out of interest, what parts of your thesis were they not happy about? As you mentioned before they are not happy with the corrected version so he decided to fail you. How do you go about resubmitting the work? I did not know you were allowed to do this - I thought you only got one shot at it. If you can resubmit then great, as long as it wasn't the experimental part they were questioning which would take a while to sort out.

Good luck with the resubmission! 

Just reread the article - meant 6! not bothered about titles etc just want knowledge about how the world works...

7 probably

I think it is normal. I felt the same when I first started my PhD, but that feeling slowly diminishes as you progress. I recently finished my PhD and am now doing a postdoc in a different country. That feeling returned because of the new environment/different project and different ways of doing things, but as time passes it gets easier.