Hi Stachi.
I started my PhD with 35 and I didn't have any problems. Actually it was my very first choice and I got it very easily!
Don't worry about your age.
But, yes, you should look for it in the UK.
Good luck!

I am facing this problem. I have two supervisors but they are arguing about the way I should carry my project. This morning it was really embaracing: "you are completely wrong! You do not understand a thing! I think she should do that this way!" And then they ask me witch one is right! I can't take a side! They are both my supervisors!
Each one calls me aside and start speaking bad about the other, searching for my support.
I am in the middle of a big battlefield! Don't know what to do....
I am still at the beginning and I do not know what advices should I follow. Actually, for me, they both make sense!

I am researching on fuel cells. I am trying to look for new improved energy for batteries using enzymes. I still dream about the prize I am going to wim when I discover a battery that can be used for 3 or 4 years for laptops and mobile phones!
Can you imagine how the world would be different if we coul get rid of the chargers? You buy a laptop and, that's it! no need to plug it anymore! Completely socket-free!!

I'm scared of a huge NMR equipment!They keep saying how expensive it was! It has a big circle drawn in the floor meaning that you cannot approach that circle unless you dont have any metals with you (keys, wrist watch, belt, etc). I am scared that some day I will be "glued" to that thing and they have to amputate my arm, because i forgot my watch or a metalic button on my trousers!

I am in Cranfield University on the health department. And it is great!

Good luck for you! (Não desistas!)

I am also a portuguese with a "licenciatura" in Chemical Engineering.
I had a 14 which means 70%. That is enough for the PhD since I am doing one right now. Although, I think that, at least in my University, was the minimum required.
Best of luck

I tell you:
You are old when you want to be younger and
you are young when you want to be older.

So, I suppose that almost everybody here is old!
I wonder if my grandad is old: he is 90 and likes it very much!!

C'mon!! I'm 35 and the wrinkles don't disturb me at all! The thirties are the best years of your life, believe me! Age is what you fell not stupid wrinkles or grey hair (although you can dye it). I fell great and I have much more energy than some young early twenties. Also sex is much better at thirties...

If you won the lottery? Lets say... £5,000,000?

Hi

I was wondering how many holiday days we have.
the university closure days count?

I'm 35, started my PhD last week.

I meant "I mean" not I man. Don't get me wrong!

Thank's everybody, I have already those increased nerves already.
Bought my plane ticket, that means (not man) that it is definitively true!

I got my PhD and I am starting on the 2nd October.
I am from Portugal and I would like to, once in a while, spend a weekend in Lisbon. I man, if I leave on a wednesday and come back on sunday will they make a problem? What are your experiences on this?

I did it!! Just got the news and I going to start my PhD the 2 October!
It was my first interview, my first application and my first attemp!
I think I'm dreaming...
Now I have to arrange everything here in Portugal to move to Cranfield.
Is there anybody here studying there?

Thank's for all the advise you gave me during my prospecting work!

I did it! My first phone interview this morning.
I was really good, I even talked in real good english!
I will know something until the end of the week, can't wait.
I believe there is only one more candidate so, it's 50%!
If everything will be ok, Cranfield: Be afraid, be very agraid...