Signup date: 05 Dec 2006 at 8:20am
Last login: 01 Feb 2007 at 10:55pm
Post count: 292
List of the day:
1. Baile Latino: Lambada (est. 1989)
2. Bellini: Samba de Jainero (1997)
3. The Offspring: The Kid's aren't alright
4. Aventura: Hermanita
5. Nonpoint: In the Air Tonight (Miami Vice Soundtrack)
6. The Cure: A Forest (to make me depressed)
7. Warren G & Nate Dogg: Regulate
8. Chris Rea: On the Beach (to dream of holiday)
9. 2Pac: Hit Em Up (whilst thinking of academia)
It's 15:20, I got up at 8am, had breakfast, decided to start working on PhD, instead surfed online, had lunch at 12, decided that I can't work and took a nap, decided that I would start working at 1pm, instead wasted more time, then decided that I need to go to the supermarket, instead wasted more time, decided that I will start working at 3pm, but I didn't. NOW Iwasted the entire day, have no food and did not even enjoy doing nothing.
I think I'm going crazy
so what are you trying to tell us?
If somebody is studying for a PhD at OXBRIDGE we could expect him to be able to seek advice himself and not to go on an Internet forum for serious advice. We are not mocking him, in fact he is mocking himself through ridiculous statements. Calm down.
Just relax, finish your PhD at OXBRIDGE, then take a year off and a holiday in Spain or whereever and soon you will realise that life is not just publications, impact factor and RAE. Maybe you will even find a girl and have sex and then you will see that life has a lot more to offer.
Jradetzky, how old are you? The reason I'm asking is you remind me a little bit of myself when I was 10 years old (without offence). I was in primary school and fell in love with this girl. Obviously I did not know anything about sex and had never kissed a girl before, still it broke my heart when she did not want to be my "girlfriend". In class I wrote her a letter and told her to tick the box if she wants to be my girlfriend or not or maybe. She ticked "no". It took me 3 years to recover from this.
In case you are 30 years old, maybe you are just too young to know what you want in life. Maybe you are too young to plan your entire life and make irreversible decisions concerning sex life and so on.
I got a distinction for my MSc and I worked very hard (mostly at night-got into the vicious cycle of going to university for taught modules in the morning, going home, sleeping till 5pm, then working till 3 or 4am and all over again. Although it helped me getting a distinction it also resulted in depressions, overweight and so on.
However, after that, I've embarked on doctoral study and I have to say that I found it way more difficult than my entire MSc.
So I think it's not possible to compare the two or to say that people with distinction in their MSc will find a PhD very easy.
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