Overview of spiegboy on PostgraduateForum.com

Overview of spiegboy

Signup date: 12 Oct 2007 at 11:19am

Last login: 14 Aug 2009 at 5:41pm

Post count: 258

Recent Posts

Yay! I passed my upgrade.

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

hehe, congratulations, welcome to phd family

Supervisor pushing me too far

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

Talk with your supervisor and tell him you are just human being not a robot.

Doing a PhD 3 years on ?????

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

Go for it. You get everything a phd candidate should have. I believe there is no professor but dont want such a student with passion and perseverance to research work. Swing it, mate.

Flirting

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

Be prim and proper, dont fool around

Is there a chatroom for PhD/ Post docs?

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

we can establish a msn group

What is a typical PhD time commitment?

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

depends on your supervisor's style and your style

To socialise or not to socialise?

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

you should socialize, that's part of your life

Is this normal?!

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

take it easy, dont press yourself too much

A guy in our research group published 60 journal papers during the Ph.d, most are published in Physical review, JMMM, APL. In less than one year after he graduated, he published a review article in progress in materials science whose impact factor is more than 10. He is now only 30 years old. but he cannot get the funding in UK because he is from overseas. He will go to America to work in the university there.

Feeling unable to teach

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

do what you like ,nobody can force you ,even yourself

Bullies at the lab

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

reseach on your own, ignore them.

First yr PhD student stumped for ideas for summer 2008

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

dont so mean,rjb203. Anybody can take a holiday, including phders. But always work comes first. If one can make sure that his work cannot be at the least influenced by a vacation, no harm to take a vacation. But if you cannot make sure about that, delay your holiday plan after you get your degree.

Anyone here ever started over in another PhD?

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

sorry for my ill-defined english sentence. i am currently suffering from writing up papers in english. I mean before you fixed a better choice, dont make any jerky decision. To be honest, i think each subject is the same. when you work into it, you will find the interests. if you always see your subject as a layman, you can never love it.

RESOURCES FOR ACADEMIC WRITING

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

good, tks. i am currently taking an incession-course on Academic writing but not helps a lot. The best way, imo, is keeping writing up papers.

When do you get your reading done?

spiegboy 258 posts
17 years ago

use reference manager to help you organize your ref to improve your efficiency.