Signup date: 23 Jun 2007 at 10:36pm
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I don't really see the problem you have with your existing university. Surely, there must be some regulations which clearly outline the requirements to submit a PhD thesis; both with regard to format etc. but also with regard to training courses.
I strongly recommend to attend the remaining training course, to pay the outstanding course fees as soon as possible and to stop putting yourself into trouble.
Regarding your idea to "fasttrack" at another university, my simple advice is: forget it.
The truth is, it's entirely up to you and your personal work preferences (except in lab-based science PhDs).
Sometimes there will be periods of increased committments, other times will be more relaxed. If you like the 9-5 style and have no other job or teaching committments, you can work 9-5.
I used to work mostly between 8pm and 1pm during my PhD. Sometimes followed by teaching in the mornings, hence the low teaching quality
However, forget all this talk about "having no weekends, no holidays, etc.". That's nonsense. Of course one could choose to work like that but that would be a conscious and perhaps unwise decision, rather than a general expectation.
37 hours per week for 40 weeks per year over a period of three years should be fine.
What strikes me particularly odd is the fact that this forum is extremely well-known amongst PhD students. On the other hand, it is extremely well-known to those professors who regularly advertise PhD positions on the sister site.
Nevertheless we rarely ever hear any views from actual supervisors! So if one of them reads this, get out of the shadow and talk about the PhD experience from the other side. I'm sure loads of supervisors are secretly hanging around on here. Or is Shani in reality a supervisor?
Juno, see what the PhD did to me? Now I can't have a trivial conversation without looking for logical flaws and analysing the whole thing. I know, it's too easy to blame the PhD but I really used to be a friendly, nice person. Before I went through Grad School, getting traumatised and damaged for life
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