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Overview of wing92518

Signup date: 28 Aug 2019 at 3:19pm

Last login: 18 Sep 2021 at 4:10am

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After graduation

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

Quote From wing92518:
I graduated in August and have been looking for jobs. After PhD graduation, I can only get a full-time teaching assistant job. Other job applications are submitted and under review.
Is my PhD department embarrassed by me?

In fact, I was lost. I have not published a lot of papers but got associateship in Society of Actuaries.
The fact that I spent a lot of time on looking for job and friends/supervisor start to ignore me exhausts me. It can be a result of being not the most outstanding PhD student.
Thank you for reading my post anyway,

After graduation

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

I graduated in August and have been looking for jobs. After PhD graduation, I can only get a full-time teaching assistant job. Other job applications are submitted and under review.
Is my PhD department embarrassed by me?

Paper request

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

I cannot download
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016920709090103I
Please would you help me? If you have, please send a temporary link to my mailbox.

Life after resubmission of PhD thesis

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

After passing my thesis exam with minor corrections, I tried to find a job in industry. Most of the employers do not want to employ me because of overqualifcation in Asia.

Registering for a part-time PhD but completing in 3 years?

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

I am also glad that PsychologicalDr is also a self-funded student who can answer H94’s question. I am sorry that I did not know the situation in UK.
H94 said that he would like to study full-time but registered as a part-time PhD. If he wants to complete PhD within 3 years and would like more supervision, does the status of being part-time affect his chances of completing PhD within 3 years or receiving more supervision?

Registering for a part-time PhD but completing in 3 years?

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

Another uncertainty is whether the faculty/department wants to accept part-time PhD students. The department usually wants full-time students because the department usually wants PhD student to perform teaching duty(grading students' exam papers, conducting tutorial and invigilating exam) and research duty (doing literature review/collecting data to publish papers).
I was a student ambassador in MPhil/PhD information for more than five times. In Hong Kong, the faculty members clearly reject part-time students.
(Thanks for clarifying. I did not know that UK accepts every self-funded student . I had Hong Kong's perspective. Perhaps I am a bit out of topic.)

Registering for a part-time PhD but completing in 3 years?

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

Quote From rewt:
Hi H94,

The biggest issues I can see is limitations on access and supervisory time. Part-time is cheaper because they expect you to use facilities and academics time less and if someone notices that you are effectively full-time they could put limits on you. I actually quite like your idea but you would have to be careful not to make it obvious.

Also, does your university have any regulations about early submission? I know my university makes it awkward to submit early, which might make it difficult to finish after exactly 36 months.

Yes. In fact, I completed my MPhil thesis at the end of my first year. As the normal number of years it takes to complete an MPhil degree is 2, I was forced to delay my MPhil defence by 1 year. I had to pay one more year of tuition fee.

Should I pursue another PhD

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

I also think that looking for a post-doc is better. The pay is higher and there is no qualifying exam for a post-doc.

Passed with minor corrections in PhD and now exhausted

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

After teaching another research assistant, I am allowed to search for jobs.
The number of available research jobs is small but after August I will receive no income.
Time is tight right now.

Need Motivation to pursue pHD

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

I am about to graduate with a PhD. I knew at a very early stage that I should not get married if I want to get a PhD. We are not allowed to have maternal leave and wedding leave without the permission from the supervisors in terms and conditions of studentship/funding.
I think that if you want to reduce the time constraints, you should ask the relatives to help to take care of kids during your school life.

Passed with minor corrections in PhD and now exhausted

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

Quote From rewt:
hi Dr wing92518,

A massive congratulations on passing with minors!!!! That is a major achievement I am happy for you.

Your supervisor sounds toxic. You have passed and he was wrong. I haven't submitted my PhD myself so can't talk from experience and I hope someone else can give you solid advice. Though what do you want to do?

Right after my thesis defence, my supervisor emphasised the importance of staying in the university to pass the work to another experienced research assistant and correct the papers until the papers are fully published.
I am finding it hard to assign the time to look for jobs. I guess I need to look for jobs right now.

Loss of motivation & stress procrastination

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

Quote From rewt:
Hi jw5,

I am sorry to hear about your issues and can completely sympathise with you. I am a master procrastinator and have suffered at least 2 major bouts of depression during my PhD, as well as having major issues with anxiety and impostor syndrome. The simplest advice I can give you is try to learn to forgive yourself. We all have bad days, bad weeks and bad months. We all have lost motivation at one point and suffered issues during our PhDs. Don't think you are alone and what you are experiencing is incredibly common but most PhD students never admit it to one another.

This might sound counter productive but take a week break. Take a week to sort yourself out mentally and physically. Try to get enough sleep, eat healthy, exercise outside, was regularly, meet friends and follow your hobbies. Take a week to sort yourself out and not have to worry because anxiety is a killer. When you think you are ready, start small and celebrate the little things. When having motivation issues at the end of the day I write down every little thing I did and that sometimes including just going for a walk. As it is easy to focus on the big goals when really it is just a lot of small accomplishments bundled together. I also make to-do lists filled with 5-10 minute jobs as I find I get a small dopamine rush checking things off. Big goals mean less things I have completed and therefore less dopamine. I also know some people who try to do their least favourite objective at the start of the day to get it out of the way. Finding little tricks to motivate yourself can help long term. There is a lot more advice on the internet but just remember you are not alone.

Also, I wouldn't worry about catching up. If everyone worked at their top pace all the time you could probably do a PhD in 18 months. Seriously, I think every PhD timeline includes several months of procrastination. So don't feel you have to catch up as the last month is gone, you can't get it back. That is completely outside your control and it is better to focus on what you can control. If you are worried about finishing, make a list of everything you want to do and prioritise. Everyone is overambitious at the start when in reality you probably only need to do half the things you wanted to in order to form solid conclusions. So just focus on one week at a time and things will start snowball.

Yes, I think that these pieces of advice are helpful. When the people feel very helpless after doing these things in my university, they also ask Counselling Centre for help frequently. The reason is that the need for psychological help is tremendous for MPhil/PhD students and the university has always reserved capacity to help student go through these stages.

Loss of motivation & stress procrastination

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

At the initial stage of my research, I did many experiments wrongly. I asked all people for help because I did not know how to perform experiments. I did everything I could to perform correct experiments.
I talked to my family members and close friends who care about my mental health. I took one or two hours off every day to do my favourite things. I focused on improving on the quality of experiments, rather than getting a PhD. The reason is that at the end of the day it is the quality that determines whether one can get a PhD.

Passed with minor corrections in PhD and now exhausted

wing92518 19 posts
3 years ago

I passed thesis defence with minor corrections in PhD today. I have not looked for a job because my supervisor always suggested the possibility of failing the defence. I have published two third-tier papers. One paper is submitted to top journal and one paper is submitted to third-tier journal. My hobby is to study actuarial materials and therefore I almost get Associateship in Society of Actuaries.
I am very tired because there are corrections after corrections. What would you do if you were me?

Second thoughts about starting a PhD

wing92518 19 posts
4 years ago

You may ask yourself simple questions first:
1)Do you like research?
2)Have you done research with any professor?
3)Do you have a research goal in mind?
4)Are you confident that you will persist to do research even after 10/100 experiment failures?
If your answers are yes, it is clear to try. If not, think about it twice.