Signup date: 31 Dec 2006 at 4:52pm
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It'll take me ages to read as well.
It's quick to LOOK at the words. However, it's more difficult to really understand what a paper is talking about. People tend to complicate things rather than to simplfy them.
Perhaps this is also a language barrier (English is my second language).
7 months since I begin my PhD, I haven't yet figured out what I'll do for my PhD project.
No thorough literature review has been done...and all "easier" and interesting projects have been taken up by other lab members (and of course, competitors).
If I could start again, I'd rather take a year off to think about what I really want to do for my PhD.....
it's too late to say this now.
Thanks Grey's "when you think about it, it makes it more awkward in a way!!".
It's true, I've been thinking too much, perhaps. Before I speak to my supervisor, I have to think so carefully on the wordings that won't make me "sound stupid"....and I find this a very stressful thing to do.
Recently, I keep trying to escape seeing my supervisor.
I did experiment while he's working in his office, and I left before he'd a chance to talk to me.
I thought he won't come to lab on Saturdays, but I was wrong this time. I felt like "got caught"...He talked to me 3 times! (Although it's like "How're things going?" "Hi!" ... etc.) However, I don't want to speak to him at all!
I think he won't be in the lab tomorrow (Sunday), I'll go back to do my experiment, and take Monday off.
I have no one to talk to......what a shame!
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