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Ha ha!! Good to know I'm not alone. The expression I hear a lot is 'eternal student'. And I know that a lot of people who say this think that means I get up at midday, spend the afternoon watching chatshows and the evening in the pub. I wish!!
I sometimes say "I'll meet you after work" or "I'm working on sat" and they say "oooh, have you got a job?" and I reply "yes, at uni" to which they do a funny smile which says they think it's cute that I call my 'uni course' work and try to elevate it to the status of a 'proper job'!!
Please tell me that others out there cannot respond to this question in a sane manner. When people innocently inquire I have to deeply inhale, clench my jaws and wait for my eyeballs to come back to the front from rolling right back in my head. And people repeatedly ask. And they say, "but you've being doing it for ages". No. I. Haven't. Are others hyper-sensitive about this?!!
Hi, I too can totally identify. I am also finding it v hard to 'keep going' now that I am in my data analysis and write-up stage. Sometimes I simply cannot get going, but most of the time I just try to be 'strict' with myself. I try to have a reward in mind and think 'if you work for the next 3 hours' or 'if you finish this or that' you can have the reward. Unfortunately mostly my rewards are food, alcohol and cigarettes, so god knows what my health will be like when i finally finish!
Hi Pinkneuron, I’m sorry to hear about the scholarship. I’ve not experienced this myself, but have experienced many disappointments in other ways during my PhD and seen the same with many others in my department. And so I just wanted to say that although it is so, so, so frustrating, with persistence things do come right. I think that for most people, doing a PhD is an exercise in tenacity as much as anything else
hello all
I found this site a few weeks ago and have really enjoyed reading the posts - so nice to hear someone else voice all your concerns and doubts!! Anyway, I feel like a bit of a voyeur so thought I'd introduce myself and join in. I am in my third year of a PhD and currently feeling that it is most definitely Persistence in the face of Hopelessness and Despair!
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