Hi everyone

I have my first supervisory board in the morning and I have no idea what to expect. I submitted a paper last week and all I know is that tomorrow I go along and meet with my supervisor and the rest of my board and they 'help' me. I'm constantly told 'we're not here to trip you up, just to help you'. Which I believe, but I was also told 'If I rip you to shreds its nothing personal, just trying to be constructive'.

What goes on in these meetings? I have no idea really quite how these things work - is it like being marked on an essay and talking about it rather than just venting your frustration in the SU bar at yet more comments relating to the great word count tardis (yes, you're over wordcount, yes, you cut 2K words, but maybe you should ALSO have considered this and this and that, and that was too brief, would have liked that expanded blah blah blah)

I just thought I'd ask as I'm sure most of you have had to do this and I'm getting a bit nervous now and not sure how to prepare (or if I need to even) and what will happen.

Thanks

hiya!

quick note here, good luck indeed. don't worry, all of us have these things under different names...and if you were perfect after 4 months of a PhD it would be WORRYING lol! so, go and BE imperfect and stress free

hugs!

Thanks Bug :-) It was fine in the end - I have to rewrite the chapter now including a lot of other stuff but no major deadline and most of it is just explanatory stuff so that's ok. They were happy with it and the thought is now to remove the pilot study which they wanted in this bit initially for the purposes of the board and go for publication with a bit more work - yay!