http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/may/15/postgraduate.highereducation

I'd like to think I'm no. 8, but probably no. 3 lol 8-)

7 probably

Strangely, despite a very depressing teaching day yesterday, I'm feeling confident at the moment. I'm going 6 or 8.

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Heh, I like to pretend I'm number 6 but there's definitely a large part of 2 about me!

None of them stand out as me, but I'd say 2 is the closest.

I'm proably closest to 6, but I don't want answers. I just want to be able to engage with my subject for the rest of my career, write about it at a high level and teach. I think some people might think I am an eternal student, but my experience of PhDing has zero in common with the undergrad experience - which I hated anyhow. I wish I were an 8!

Just reread the article - meant 6! not bothered about titles etc just want knowledge about how the world works...

I'm definitely a 2, but they should have added another sentence to say "and wants to strangle any student who tells them 'I hate my PhD, I want a job'" ;) I could be a bit of a 3- I'm not an eccentric but I wouldn't want to work anywhere but academia now.

I think my MSc supervisor would say I was a 6 as, in his words, I "f***ing love" my subject area. I wonder if he wrote that on my PhD reference ;)

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think I would like to be 8 too, but am probably more likely to be 6, or 2 - although I often had to forgo lunchbreak at lunchtime because something was needed,, and therefore have lunch at about 3.30 :$

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I guess I was a mixture of 6 and 2, though 1 has a certain appeal about it. :-)

I get the feeling I started as a 1, but teaching them (and being a subwarden) kinda puts you off undergraduates. I'm glad I'm not 18.

probably a 6/7 with elements of 3 also