PhD

[perplexis]

Good luck! The final rush is the fun part.

Well, ok, maybe not, but through the euphoric recollection of having finished it looks like the fun part from here.
100k words! Fucking hell, mine was like 50!

 

[Edie]

Good luck! The final rush is the fun part.

Well, ok, maybe not, but through the euphoric recollection of having finished it looks like the fun part from here.
100k words! Fucking hell, mine was like 50!

Mine was 20 k, I think. yay for molecular genetics, few words required!

 

[Red Horse]

I'm... um... reading about Malaysian peasant resistance.

Thats not 'Weapons of the Weak' by any chance?

 

[ViolentPanda]

What does a PhD normally involve mrs quoad? Should you be reading books or something?

Having copious amounts of pervy sex with your supervisor(s), while making sure that your thesis cites their published works, generally.

 

[perplexis]

Having copious amounts of pervy sex with your supervisor(s), while making sure that your thesis cites their published works, generally.

I did mine all wrong then

 

[Roadkill]

Pervy sex with my old supervisor doesn't really bear thinking about tbh.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I'd have pervy sex with my supervisor, at a push. But then, I'm not doing a PhD yet ... plenty of time for that ...

20k, 50k? Lightweights. 100k or you're not a proper doctor

 

[lights.out.london]

Registration day: Monday.

Turn up.

Speak to graduate secretary.

Her: "do you know where your desk is?"

Me: "yep!"

Her: "Right. Get on with it, then."

Errrrrrrrr. OK!

And no-one has told me to do anything since then.

It's all rather strange

Pull yer fucking finger out.

signed

A. Taxpayer.

 

[Aldebaran]

The well rounded bit is often difficult once you get to PhD level because you become so single minded and focused. Academia is incredibly rarefied, and with that comes the good and the bad. The good being (hopefully) the continuation of knowledge, the bad being the social stuntification of those practicing in academia.

It is all depending on the person, isn't it, and not limited to academia at all.

salaam.

 

[Aldebaran]

no, i think education is great. the more the better but one must always stay well rounded. i could finish my masters if i took 5 more classes but i'm not in academic mode any more.

Maybe you will go back to it later. What you already got is never wasted.

salaam.

 

[Aldebaran]

I actually like the fact that academics are weirdos.

Haha. That's encouraging.. Thank you for liking us
We all need back up because otherwise who is going to read our nonsense?

salaam.

 

[Aldebaran]

I now realize I could have put all of this in one post; It's not that I'm competing wiht "post counts".
(and belive it or not but Dyslex made of that 'post cunts' and I saw it.)

salaam.