Olivia, thanks for the trout thing! Tried it out minus the oranges :) but plus some yummy fruit sauce! DELICIOUS!

My predicament is so similar to Olivia's, also to top this all, the area in which I live is one of the most unsafe ones apparently, every week, we hear incidents of mugging and such like. The usual happens: residence committees wail, students wail...but back to same stuff next week again.

The worst is having to share facilities. People burn up the kitchen, there is a cloud of smoke in the kitchen at the fag end of a long day and you cant use it, they waste water, all kinds of stuff.

But I am wondering, I have not come across anything thats cheaper....I do know people working a huge amount to pay off that extra margin to live in a decent place, but somehow I cant manage any more part time work than I already am :(

it all boils down to money, doesnt it....urrrrrgh!!

Misspacey!!!!

Thats EXACTLY what I was suggesting: perhpas Qo and B being the same :) Why on earth should YOU be involved in this???

Oh dear.

I hadnt even imagined it that way, this just proves how tones/expressions everything is sooo badly mishandled by technological mediation urrrgh. If only this was ftf, this wudnt hav happened.


And, no, I wasnt ever talking of the 'content' of any two discussions, i only said, we often disagree on this forum, but we dont go about deleting everything we said in the face of that disagreement. I still hold that to be true.

Is everything cleared up now Misspacey?

In fact I remember a couple of weeks back, I disagreed with some others, Misspacey, was it you among them (cant recall) about high fees and grad courses in the UK (we were discussing LSE I think)....havent checked yet but I am sure all of us retained our posts and stuck up for them, though I remember there was some high amount of debate and disagreement out there!

Personally, I think we are a pretty responsive, argumentative and helpful forum, and we have discussed everything in our phD lives from personal issues, deaths, births, supervisors (most often!!), bad committee members, flawed panels, data screw ups, financial troubles....and much more...

Its just that the first post from the person, without a single mention of anything else was straight out of a romance advice column, (I really wish it hadnt been deleted)..


In any case, QO and brainiac, both of you joined our forum at a pretty similar moment on the same day with great first posts, so Welcome to BOTH of you.

hmm.

;-)

Hmm..very very interesting indeed.....there is a little pattern developing on this thread..... :) Can anyone else see the pattern?

Misspacey: yes, the post really was interesting, and I am wondering if all posters deleted their posts in response to a 'excuse me!" we'd soon become a forum of placid consent rather than one of excitement, argumentation and debate!!


My post history on this forum shows nothing akin to insensitivity, I am sure of that :)

In case my post below looks strange, here's to point out that the poster QOFE had posted a huge post on whether we at the forum could advise her about an intricate matter involving multiple love rounds of a certain person and the usual associated issues.

I responded with Excuse me!! because the post hadnt a thing to do with anything about PhDs or PhD life, and was the perfect entry to an agony or romance advice column (this was also the posters first post).

After this I come back to see two question marks, the original post having been deleted, making my reply look utterly foolish!

excuse me?


Seriously, EXCUSE ME?


In fact, excuse ALL of us.

Hi, hehe that isnt my topic but its one of the many things people in my field worked with many years ago...my research is with Facebook :)

And this when I so wish we had the technolgoies to flick a wand and actually insert decorations on this page. But alas, the world of technology on this forum and the world of the Hogwarts school shan't meet!

Thanks Olivia, even though i may well be the only person checking in here :) Yes, much as my own PhD work relates with, the offline and the online must merge and this just proves all of what dreary theoreticians have ben droning on about in boring journal articles!

Happy holidays to everyone (and selfishly, most of all, ME, may I tide over 4 weeks pretty soon!)

Hi all,

I am applying for a couple of academic scholarships which are open across all disciplines with very vague and broad goals (like a better society blah blah etc) as themes of the funders.

My point is they ask for the research proposal. Now as I am sure all of us know, our subjects are pretty jargon laden beyond a point, even in the arts and social sciences. The board I see has lots of people from law and other related fields, but no one really from my field.

Would you suggest I try to make my proposal a little less techincal and write in forms that are more easy for non disciplined folk to get? My only worry is if it does go to a 'field' person it then may seem a bit too kiddish if you know what I mean.

Also, in these cases how long do you think the proposal should be? My final 10000 proposal is not due till end of this academic yr, so I dont think I can manage a lot right now.

Any advice would be really helpful

best

Both would be so perfect....But i totally agree with the rest out here....phd is your first project not your last, go fo r a great sup :)

Oh I didnt mean to be sarcastic....I am just feeling as grim as a thundercloud this time of the the yr....

Thanks a lot, u r nice :)

Aemillya,

sweetie, huge hugs for you. Take heart, there is nothing anyone can say or do to make the pain any less, whether they've been through it or not. But please know, that he has made your life meaningful in every way he could. Dont force yourself to read now, be kind to yourself.

I am a tremendously emotional person, and the person dearest to me on earth is my grand mom, 86 yrs old, halfway across the globe. Every time I visit home, I try to spend as much time with her as I can, and when I say bye, and hug her, my entire mind is saying "is this the last time I'll get to hug you?"

I am terrified of bad news coming....I cant even write these words...its so scary..

I cant say a word to ease your pain, but do know, you are not alone in this. There are many on this forum who have battled death, and have been brave in the face of fire, hang in there, and be KIND to yourself. Let yourself grieve, its normal.

Hugs hugs and hugs

P'Bug

Aww thanks a lot olivia, maye i ll post stuff....its looking so lonely all of a sudden...