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Well, I'm 3 months into my PhD, and already I feel stressed and WAY behind the 8-ball, and yet I'm working very hard at it and getting through a ton of reading, so I don't why I feel so inadequate! ARGH! Anyway - mostly the stress has been created by logistic and administrative nightmares, and most of these have been caused by my need to spend ...

A friend of mine brought the news to my attention of Nick Cave being awarded an honorary PhD by Monash University – Nick managed 2 years of his arts degree (actually at the Caulfield Institute of Arts and Technology before it was subsumed by Monash) before giving up and embarking on a career as a musician and sometime author. His contribution? ...

The Wordpress blog ''Stuff White People Like'' has a recent entry ''Graduate School'' related to PhD study - an entertaining read. Not PC, but fun. 

Yesterday I achieved what I had been waiting for so long to do - thesis submission! Here's how it happened: Firstly, I went through and did a final check for minor errors e.g. spelling. It was a good thing I did, because there were still two that I had missed. I didn't work off the pdf for this. Instead, I went through all of the words in the ...

I never cease to be amazed at how most other students in our building appear to live at uni. They return here (after being here all day) after dinner at around 8:30pm, a bit before I leave for the day to have my own. Presumably, they would then work for a considerable amount of time as there's not much point coming to uni for half ...

This song began its life as a lab song describing the windowless, hopeless, depressing life in my dank laboratory. It was only recently that I realized that most, if not all PhD students would be able to relate to my experiences, except perhaps the Vitamin D deficiency caused by living in a windowless lab. There's even an audio version of this ...

This is most of my workspace. Yes I have a DVD player (I sometimes even use it in my research). Note the chips and coke, my classic do nothing food and beverage of choice (yes horrible nutritional choice, but in my defence i do eat good food normally). FUNNY FACT: Judge Judy was on the tv when i took the pic (no i don't watch it, it just switched ...

I submitted a whole heap of paperwork today. Unfortunately none of it was my thesis. I had decided to get in early and do my annual report before even receiving anything in the mail. I really don't have a lot to do at the moment, since chapter drafts are in the hands of my supervisors. So I used the time to get something out of the way at a ...

I must submit my thesis by the beginning of September (small scream of horror). This isn't really my ideal time, I would rather having a couple of extra months, but when i asked to suspend my candidature while i already was on extension i essentially supsened at time limit. With the threat of having my candidature withdrawn if i don't give in my ...

Now that I've experienced life with some Swedish doctoral students for a while, I thought I'd highlight some of the differences between the Australian system and the Swedish system. Note that I can only really speak about those at ASB (Avdelningen för SignalBehandling) at BTH. I don't know if these things apply throughout Sweden. If you are ...