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losing my mind
eww, that has totally put me off mcdonalds, and no 'supersize me' didn't - I just wanted more *sneaks rolls around laughing - literally*
I bought a £600 cooking hob once, which I thought was faulty, so they sent someone to collect it, only the person came round and delivered the new one, but left before I could give him the 'faulty' one. Anyway, it turned out it wasn't faulty - so I have 2 £600 hobs! - one is under the stairs until the used one gets too scratched or something.
I did live in fear for about a year that they would come crashing thorugh my front door asking for it back though!
losing my mind
well done Jinkim - keep with the running, try listening to an audio book so it really is your time away from things, and feels less like a chore. If I could run, I would imagine every step being a word on my thesis and running along a massive piece of paper. Unfortunately my back means I hobble along like a cripple, so more like a full stop than a scentence!
How do I choose my thesis supervisor?
talk to people they have supervised before! Mine is a mixture of both, she can ignore me for 7-8 months but when she is interested she can get involved in the day to day stuff too.
Recession and PhD funding
hmm that is true, I think they just put a call out for specifically economics quantitative stuff, althought that could have been for postdoc funding
what would you do ?HELP! PLEASE :(
ah, as with most teenage bullies he probably fancies you :-x :-x
I think there are people like this in most departmnets - I have the 'Witches from Macbeth' who sit round their cauldren and bitch about junior members of staff 24/7 and make life miserable.
Are you allowed to listen to music in the lab so you can blot him out?
Recession and PhD funding
The gov't are looking to put more money into 'proper' science at the mo - the key themes for the future seem to be knowledge transfer, showing that your research has impact etc. So although there will be less for social sciences, things like CASE studentships will probably increase if anything. I don't know about success rates for funding, but if you know a supervisor who puts in a bid for something like a CASE award, you are much more likely to get it than just cold call applications.
Wal is probably the best person for this because of his Anti Mandy campaign - I've just made that up, but he does not like Peter Mandelson and his crazed ideas for HE!
losing my mind
Right Jinkim - first of all you need chocolate ASAP.
Secondly, I think as I have said over on accountability, that you may need someone else to read through your chapter to give it a fresh pair of eyes, to allow you to move on.
I think you need to change to a completely different part of your thesis, work on that for a while and then come back to this chapter in a few days. you have become stuck with it, so you need to shake it up a little.
Are you keeping the rowing/jogging up - if you haven't lack of exercise could be the course of your down in the dumps week - especially if you are very used to being hyper exercised (coming from the person who hasn't exercised in 10 months! (up) )
Sneaks' accountability thread
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Bluebird, Jinkim, have you thought about getting a fresh pair of eyes on your chapters - giving them to someone else to read through to see where/what needs changing? I know this can be difficult, and people can start stealing work, but it may help.
I've driven 3 hours up and down the motorway, delivered stuff, fed cats and put their timer bowl on and now back at my desk with tea, waiting for the second run on Thursday, and then the big furniture on Friday woop woop - back in my own house!!!! I'm sooo excited.
Right - transcriptions, after the tea hmmmm.
finish in 3 years?
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ooh crazy double posting today (gift)(gift)
finish in 3 years?
It seems like different subjects have different requirements as to what makes a complete PhD. Also different countries. I am currently working with someone who completed his PhD in two years, whilst working full time - and it turns out that his 'PhD' is just one small project like a lengthy MSc dissertation. My PhD so far has meant 40 x 1 hour interviews, another 20x 1 hour interviews, a questionnaire where I had to recruit 400 participants and now I'm going in to my last study where I need to analyse 100 peoples reports they have been given. Whereas I know some people where the original 40 interviews would have sufficed.
Sneaks' accountability thread
Good luck everyone. I'm about to move house, well I've got the car full of stuff I don't want going in my father in law's van as they WILL break everything. and am driving down and dropping it off. Hopefully I will be back by late lunch to get on with some transcribing.
finish in 3 years?
Hmm verucasalt - can't you clone someone to do the lab work while you do the writing?
Keenbean - I'm a lady *points frantically at the obvious boobs (not moobs) on her avatar*
Feeling a little better now. I barely have any writing, well, I have a lot of writing but none of it could be submitted, none is in a flowing, good argument form anyway. My problem is participants too, I am still trying to get my 3rd study off the ground, my participants are a select group, that just don't want to do research - I now realise thats why no one else has done research in my area. D'oh!
But I'm concentrating on writing for publication - so I still won't have anything for my thesis until next year :-(
guys and gals
I think its facisnating how we give others an identity by reading their posts.
I also find it quite interesting that so far there are more females at least responding to the poll. I think this could be tied into health psych. If I remember correctly (it's been a while since I finished my psych undergrad) women use social support more often as a coping mechanism for stress. Perhaps that explains why there appears to be more women on the forum (assuming my poll results are representative of all members on the forum). Maybe women post on forums like this more because they find the support comforting and a way of dealing with stress, whereas men go it alone??
Any psych phders want to comment??
Well in terms of careers, women would more likely need to build networks for support - and often would feel uncomfortable doing that in their place of work, or feel unable to because of the lack of women in their workplace. As men dominate the workplace, at least in terms of numbers, then they are less likely to need to go elsewhere for psychosocial support.
However, with any good theory, I can find you about 3 gazillion journals that would agree and disagree with the above statement haha
finish in 3 years?
oh and boys can be rubbish! although my hubby's bday is on weds, so we have now entered the 'bday week' so nothing can be said against him haha
finish in 3 years?
I always think it seems like ages, but when it takes you three weeks to analyse a bit of data it just seems impossible. And everyone keeps asking me to do stuff that is non-PhD and I just can't say no and now I'm stressing about not having any income in october aaaaaaaarrrghhhhhhhh! :-s
