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How looks life when You are PhD?

G

Can somebady tell me how looked life in first month of Phd?is it true that fitst weeks you only read publications and looking at another people or meybe is that you start working serious in first they? I want know how it looks in your s example. Thanks

G

I think, you'd be better off asking such questions at "Postgrad Life" section of this forum.

G

I see that PHD are very busy:)because they don't have time to share with us about their experiance with PHD:(

G

From what I've heard after speaking to PhD students and looking at research proposals that include a timetable of where you’re meant to be at particular points during your PhD that looks like what happens at the start! It's a good way to familiarise yourself with the topic especially on up to date developments in your field and to plan your later stages, e.g. fieldwork, lab work if you are doing a science PhD.

G

You should probably take advantage of this reasonably "quiet" time as I'm sure you won't have much time later to do everything and look at all the papers you want to once you get stuck into PhD and have lots of other things to do.

G

It depends on your background...for example, when I started my PhD I had already spent 3 years working in the field so I was up to speed with the techniques involved and was in the lab from day one. A fellow student who started at the same time as me was new to the field so he spent a few months doing a literature review and shadowing people in the lab before he started on his practical work.

G

So I see that I have to buy comfortable snickers because i will be Shadow:) and my future Lab is big:) When is good time for first publications (rewieving or other)? and how many publications should write "good" phd?

G

Always good to publish, I guess you can try to publish as soon as you have something publishable! ;o) I have heard it said (anecdotally) that you should be able to produce 3 full papers from a PhD thesis, but this is a generalisation so don't take it too literally.

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