I've been in the office sincerrrrrr..ummmmm.. 9am

@Jouri that is fantastic!

Don't worry Walminskipeasucker.. this poster did one of those posts too lol!

This is 'findaphd' forum not 'rent-a-bride'!

Right now I have classic fm on the radio.. but normally I listen to radio one.. I just can't stand edith bowman so turn it over while she is on..

I'll tell you one thing for sure.. No one puts baby in the corner!

When I was younger I worked on a vacuum cleaner/accessories stall on the market in my home town.. I wouldn't say I developed an obsession with them.. but i used to know far too much about hoover bags, filters and drive belts! There was once this kid who came on the stall who was obsessed with vacuum cleaners.. his mum had got him a dyson for christmas.

Oh yeah.. and you don't have to pay council tax!!

Erm.. You can still get student discount and a young persons railcard hehe

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In light of your earlier post regarding this. Generally it doesn't matter if you have an MA, MSc, MChem, MEng these wouldn't bypass the initial MPhil period of a PhD in the UK. The replies on that thread did answer your question but here you go. You seem to want to be able to label the MPhil as a seperate entity from the PhD, and so for this reason consider the MPhil the period where you prove yourself capable of working on your own and planning experiments, and have a chance to develop your research skills, learn new techniques and research your specific thesis area to enable you to complete the PhD.. something that a taught masters program would not necessarily cover.

Whenever you start a PhD program in the UK you are initially registered as MPhil and this is simply the first section of PhD study, it is completely normal. At the end of your first year or the start of your second year you have to produce a report on what you have done during that time regarding your project. You then normally have to have a viva where you get asked about your research area, your work to date and future directions for the project. If you have made satisfactory progress then you are upgraded to PhD, then you carry on to finish your research. In the event that you have done little work, don't know your subject or if the examiners don't deem your work suitable for PhD then you can be asked to write up the work in a smaller thesis and at this point you would be awarded an MPhil.

I have 4 supervisors due to industrial partnership and they are all great - friendly, helpful and nice

If you don't have a distinct stats service, is there not someone in your department or in your uni who knows something about stats who can help?

If it's mexican you want there are a couple i went to when i lived in london.. there is a nice one called Wahaca on chandos place and a cheaper one called La Perla on Maidens Lane near the Porterhouse Pub.. its a while since i have been to either, but i liked them when i did go :o) Both are off Covent Garden if that is anywhere near Bleak Towers

Something like that would take me a week.. that being the week before handing it in lol.

Regardless of how early I start a piece of work like a lit review or abstract submisson etc, my productivity is terrible untill the week before the deadline then i go into overdrive and get it done..

My advice if you are struggling is to have an overview of each part of your lit review and organise all your notes/papers into these areas and then tackle them one bit at a time, then once they are done fit them all together. Say you have 1000 words a section then that is less daunting than doing the whole thing. Plus if you get fed up of a particular section you can just move onto another. In my experience I can comfortably do about 1000 words a day if I put my mind to it.