Dear all
First i would to say happy new year for all, and wishing you a nice and lucky year.
I am a new phd student and will start in January 2014 in uk, after two weeks I have first meeting with my supervisor and I am a little bet worried, can you give me your advise and experiences?
Layan,
Please take a glance at my blog on what exactly a PhD is, set up as a question and answer format for commonly asked questions.
Best of luck!!!
Ian (Mackem_Beefy)
Good post incognito, thanks for the link beefy.
Question: I have been putting down a laundry list of questions for my initial meeting with my supervisors, but I wanted to know how wildly can your originally proposed research vary from what you and your supervisor(s) agree upon?
Since I deferred for 4 months, I spent that time doing "pre-enrollment lit review" and discovered that A) My proposed research is not that great B) I have found a much more detailed and interesting research gap directly related to what I originally proposed and C) I had another idea that was originally an article idea but realized that it can easily become a full blown PhD related to my secondary supervisor's interests.
I have already decided that while I will put all ideas on the table, I will do whatever they ask in order to get the PhD and get my academic career started.
Happy New Year and Congratulations!
I 'm also starting my PhD next week and I am a bit nervous about my first ever encounter/meeting with my supervisors.
Thank you for starting this thread, the tips are very useful.
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