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Overview of thecoastman

Signup date: 10 May 2006 at 2:16pm

Last login: 12 Mar 2010 at 5:13pm

Post count: 2932

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The Oxbridge thing...

thecoastman 2932 posts
17 years ago

Any prejudices you have at Oxbridge may well be true(ish) at the undergraduate level, but doing a postgraduate course everyone is as normal and as poor as everyone else. Well most people anyway

Last on to post on this thread wins

thecoastman 2932 posts
17 years ago

Don't worry, I'm here to give this thread some lovin'

October a quiet month on the off topics subsection

thecoastman 2932 posts
17 years ago

Hey guys, I'm back!

Though the fact that it took 11 posts before my name was mentioned means I might just go and hide again

PhD income details

thecoastman 2932 posts
17 years ago

That is correct (for research council funding at least).

Last on to post on this thread wins

thecoastman 2932 posts
17 years ago

Oh dear, not all that Alan Rickman business again...

Quotes for your thesis

thecoastman 2932 posts
17 years ago

Particularly cheesy for coastal scientists and hydrologists: "We have oceans of data, rivers of information, puddles of knowledge, and the odd drop of wisdom."

Xmas holidays for PhD students

thecoastman 2932 posts
17 years ago

Research Council-funded students get something like 20 or 24 days holiday a year? Some people take that, some people take way more than that, some people never take a day's holiday in three years! Depends if you have experiments, how fast you are at working, or how panicked you get I suppose...