Proplus - check! (ding ding)

Random emails - check

"that" presentation - no slides but some good outline - check

now if only we didn't have another salesman visit I might even have had yoga :)

Ah, Sneaks et al.
I have been a bad student, avoiding this thread in my panic-stricken uselessness. Today I got up with hubby at 5.45 - urgh - in the hope that I could do some work in the wee hours. As it is I'm just tired (we're out of coffee), surfing the net and thinking how much I don't want to go to the lab. I really must get out of this funk, I've been such a slacker recently :-( Accountable I must be, so for this morning...

1) take proplus in lieu of coffee
2) make a v.v.v.rough draft two slides for "that" presentation
3) write an outline for tuesday's presentation (just for variety)
4) once that's done go and do some yoga, the lab can wait until I'm zen

Hi Stanleysj
Very few people will have publications prior to their PhD, so I wouldn't worry about that. The fact that you have hands on research experience is always a bonus, although it's a shame that hasn't included using the techniques that you think will be relevant for your PhD. If you have a keen interest in a topic though that will always come across well, so I'd say just start applying and see what response you get, a PhD is meant to be a learning experience so don't worry that you have some gaps in your knowledge to start with.

Hi alpaca, was wondering how you were getting on. Thank God you'd just backed up! Nice to see the universe working in harmony with a phd student for once :)

And of course....green green green (thank God I don't have pink hair anymore)

Thanks guys :)

The interview is on Monday so I probably don't have time for the careers office (nearest half-decent one is three hours away) but those are super-constructive suggestions. So far I'd just been reading up on the topic and thinking about that naff presentation so a more focused approach it shall be! Given the tone of the letter I think it's certain that they've had some kind of recruitment "guru" in and will chuck cunning questions a-plenty.

No, it's an NHS one and I've forgotten how the real world operates :s

Confession of sorts....

A salesman just came to the door and asked me "are either of your parents in?"

He just left with a flea-ette in his earhole.

Me too keep calm! Teehee :) I'm sure my boss has caught me harvesting aubergines more than once (cheaper than artichokes you see, I got bored before I got to the high-end veg).

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I made a terrible mistake last month, in that I actually applied for a job. Worse still, it seems to have been a decent application and I now have an interview. Oops. It's been years since i was in the real world of interviews and I'm flapping like a dodo with delusions of grandeur. There are all these vague allusions to "handwriting exercises" and "a microsoft office based test" ..... :s I've achieved virtually zero in PhD-land since finding out.


I also have to do the most cringe-inducing presentation ever
"you're in the pub with friends and you share your excitement that you have an interview for the post of......they ask, "what's it all about?"" urgh!
Anyone else had to do something like this and keep a straight face? Anyone succeeded, more to the point? (I'm guessing my preferred approach of taking a pint glass and slurring is out)


Or even better, if anyone has ever been throught the interview process for clinical science....advice? There are stars in it ,)

Good luck with it SabaH, hope you get enough of us.

Painfully Educated? The unloved experts? The beleaguered spuds?
If you like I'll even let you borrow my deerstalker race team name; "Bambi Must Die".

Aside from that I have no musical ability, so I shall have to resign myself to being a groupie.

I'm doing genetics. Good luck in 12 days time!

Poor you algaequeen, what a horrible run of events :(

Please don't feel bad about taking a few days off, I think even the darkest of supervisor's would absolve your absence from the lab at such a time (and all your colleagues would actively thank you for keeping them safe from the bug). Make the most of it and rets up, before you know it you'll be back in their working your little algae-self to the bone again!

Don't worry sneaks, presenting to a non-specialist audience is so much more relaxed and enjoyable than dealing with other academics - for one thing, no one will know if you get it wrong! I think you might be surprised by how liberating you find working without powerpoint as well. Just treat it like a pub discussion (although maybe go easy on the beer until after your session)