I just read this thread for the first time in a while.

Sorry to say this, JRadetzky but you are definitely:

a) homophobic and

b) a weirdo.

People have sex and it's one of the normal things of life. And people are behaving like animals sometimes, that's why we live in a world full of war, crime and injustice.

www.belforduniversity.org

I used to be a different person and enjoyed life-PhD just makes me miserable most of the time

sorry, please ignore my previous post: just having a bad day as I don't really see how I can ever complete my PhD in this academic environment.

Ups and downs, like they say

You are definitely asking the wrong questions in this forum. You want to know whether a PhD has benefits for an intended career as whatever. Then you say you want to do one but you are not sure about the benefits. That makes no sense. Either you want to do one (then you don't care about the benefits beforehand) or you don't.

In my humble opinion I advise you to dismiss the thought of doing one: it's hard to get into it, but even harder to get through to the end unless you dismiss a social life and are willing to see a lot of arseholes everyday who think they are so important in the world but have a limited worldview.

I don't like academics and I say that as one of them (currently). If you are willing to dedicate your life to a big waste of time then go ahead though..

the last sentence without sarcasm, btw.

Strange things happen in this world and some things cannot be explained

are you sure nobody entered your room whilst you went outside? Also, can you think of a specific time (clockwise) when you started buttoning your shirts? How long did it take you and what did you do before? This might help you to find out if you really did it or were just planning to do so...if not, then the only explanation is:

You have a ghost in your room

If you dislike this forum so much, why don't you just refrain from posting on here, Jenny??

Instead of bitching about other people behind their backs you should rather enter the debate with relevant statements, but that's what your unable to do apparently.

So Jenny, that's not a very nice way of continuing the original debate through the back door.

It's hypocritical, actually. You had nothing to say in the original debate and now you try to post this irrelevant comment weeks later.

It doesn't seem like you've learned anything at all..

yeah, almost dying from a vitamin tablet 4 weeks ago.

Tell us now!

Why did your supervisors get sacked? I always thought these things are unlikely to happen in academia. What happened?

Just to clarify- ULUG is former MistaG but neither ULUG or MistaG are Apollo...

P.S.: Ulug is back

Dear all

thanks, I'm still alive and feel much better today. It's been a big shock but I've been lucky. Thanks for your advice and please don't swallow 'Centrum' tablets..

Thanks. I think I'm slowly calming down now. I've never had this before and I almost passed out.

That stupid 'Centrum' tablet almost killed me. I'm not scared easily normally but thI've been panicking. The worst thing is: if you choke and die you have not even time to say goodbye to anybody. It must be horrible to realize that you can't breathe and then you can do nothing about it. I seriously thought I'm dying now. I ran out of the flat and banged against the door of my neighbour but noone opened when it happened.

Hello?

I think I go to the hospital as I still feel really weird.

Just before it happened I've been thinking about the format of a chapter and now I think that I could have been dead a few minutes ago.

What an ungraceful exit-people would have found me in a couple of days. Life is so dangerous