I thot Keenbean is a girl.

:-)

My anonymity was compromised here, months ago, when someone recognised me, but I have moved on...:$

uhhm cobweb I see the haters at 51 and the lovers at 49... :-)

Hi KB welcome aboard and here, have a crown!
I know you've been bed ridden and admire you for already thinking of accountability!!!

Thanks Cobweb for the gift! Didnt get the apple bit though....

@Cobweb: bumble bee chunder aka honey? Ahhh yes...

@Sneaks: I'm not American OMG! Or did you not mean that lol!

The paste of all stinky and smelly gooey things after touring kitchens of the world? Dunno...

I just watched The Stepfather at a West End cinema (I like watching horror films and then ruing the entire event when I'm trying to not go pee at 2 am out of a fear of unknown axe-men or similar) and then ate like a pig at a Chinatown restaurant and will now eat a plate of prawn noodles...

so, perhaps will check in on this thread tomorrow for microbial waste around here might just make Bug chunder...

(there you are Cobweb, I;ve put in some toilet humour into this thread!):p

This thread has acculturated and socialized me generally :-)

After reading everything, I have conclude that I shall never touch the following:

1. Marmite
2. Veggiemite
3. Twiglets
4. Branston pickle
5. Peanut butter
6. Earwax (well, of course)

I know opinions are divided, but apart from Jinkim they seem to be love or hate, and I am too scared of the hate, so life without the 6 above had gone on fine and will go on well!

Have a turkey everyone(turkey) with a side of healthy sprouts to ruin it (sprout)

COuldn't resist giving unsolicited tips on a related matter.

Reviewing the existing literature:

1. Do use google scholar effectively,
2. use a reference manager to play with (like Endnote) ifyou do indeed have time in Jan so you can make a nice bibliog,
3. try following an academic style (APA 5th for instance, if you've got the time to train yourself properly a bit!)
4. Have you access to electronic libraries via someone where you can access journals. Then, go ahead and browse through some archives online, perhaps consider using the Arts and Humanities Citation Index for Joseph G in the keywords and abstracts and titles... (and know when to say thus far and no further)

i.e. if you decide on going for a student academic space, make it one of your best shots at this stage!

Oh, you've inspired me with your inspiration, I was like this in high school!! :-)

Hi there Photoflo

Three points :-)

First, Like CeCef I would say that an 'academic publication' has a training process needed that one just has not gone through by high school.

Second, borrowing a page out of my experiences with criticism/praise (am blessed/burdened with horridly powerful ambitions from middle school) I'd say aiming too high too early is not a good idea.

But, most important is my third point. For some weird reason, despite not knowing you, I find myself identifing with you! You've set yourself an ambitious task, far more ambitious than most around you have set. My suggestion - go ahead with this task, *but* aim for a publication that's in a student academic space, which is *not* a newsletter, but precisely an academic space for students who clearly are serious with research. And second, give yourself time to make it the best you can.

So, I googled for you a bit, and here goes: (these are all undergrad and grad space, so there you go : your thirst for raising the bar is met :-))

1. Ibid is a student history journal that's run by Univ of Texas. It's peer reviewed by academics across the US.

2. Another one is the Loyola Historical Journal.

3. Finally, this is a high school history journal - The Concord Review

I wish you luck. If you're going to be in academia, treat your attempt as symbolic of many similar things you will go on to do, later, raising the bar a little bit, with every step!

Good luck!

Gosh Wally, I've been rep (departmental) and just manage this process as follows:

"Guys, the usual - it's that time of the yr, any feedback for the meeting? Bug x"

And they say

"none! except they could give us new chairs!"
:p

See how untuned I am from all reality - i had never even heard of this Marmite thingy...

And, if it is microbial waste, I wouldnt touch it with a barge pole. urrrrgh.

But then again, honey is the vomit of bees or something. Read it in school sometime in science class.

Hi there

am not sure I get you on the 'only 23' point! That's an Ok age to start a PhD, I started mine last year at exactly that age, and many I know started a couple yrs earlier too...

A phd is a mixed journey and you'll find out soon! :-) Good luck!

May sound harsh, but while these situations can be extremely stressful, by allowing this one factor to negate all the good things you've listed your response to this 'teenage bully' is similar to a teenage victim :-)

Think of this - we cannot control what people will be like, wherver it is we go. If we give up and disappear the moment someone else in our environment goes bonkers, we leave ourselves in a rather vulnerable posish! Academia, I am told is one of the bitchiest, stinkiest, crabbiest places ever - imaghine putting dozens of capable, ambitious, jobless people in close proximity day in day out with unreachable tragets strewn around in the distant future in meagre proportions!

Stick to it, ignore the idiot and focus on the nice things you have :)

I waited to respond, for I wasnt too sure what to write.

I think I am enormously stressed with the 3 jobs, plus tons of presentations, plus 1 paper accepted, 1 submitted, 1 being written with sup (all for good journals), by the first term of the second year.

Hence, my sup seems v keen that I go on to take 4 yrs, for I am obviously stressed with these self set (And doubtless enjoyable) goals and it shows.


Now, reality status: my fieldwork is done. The transcripts are done. I am in my 14th month of the PhD. What does that leave me if I am to do this in 3 yrs? 22 months.

I begin analysis from Jan 2010. Aim is for a first draft by this time in 2010. And then 8 months and submission in August 2011 or so.

People keep saying - oh wow fieldwork done? well, yes, I recruited (in hell) from 7 schools across Greater London, 60 kids, whole process took around 3 months and went hitchless.

I think that's a huge good point. There is another aspect of my empirical work - to be done at my desk (analysing websites) which also needs doing (I think July 2010 to Sept 2010)


I have *no* idea if I look set for 3 yrs, for mind you, I will have these 3 jobs (3 days a week) all along till the day I defend my thesis. Nothing will cease in the 3rd yr, and I have no mind to stop presenting or writing to publish. And 3rd yr am also doing the PG cert.

the only bonus is I write very fast. I just dont know what my answer is to you Sneaks, but its for others to decide if this looks doable in 3 yrs. am in month 14 now, fieldwork over.