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There will be a shift in my priorities over the next few days. I finally got all of the page breaks sorted out. It took an entire day to deal with. In a lot of cases, I would try and try and try to just shave off a millimetre or half a millimetre anywhere I could, all in the hopes of getting an equation to appear on the previous page...but it ...

The PSA Research Careers Week (held 10-13 Sept) was a cornucopia of information for research students at any stage in their degree. From designing your thesis, to managing supervision and the mid-thesis doldrums, to examinations and what distinguishes a PhD, there was something of interest no matter where you are up to in your studies. There was ...

As a counterpart to Karen's post, here's evidence that it doesn't always go the way that you want it to. Yes, this will sound overly cynical, but I am writing 'from the heart' and it is perhaps a result of the amount of stress on me at the moment.  Some of you may remember that I had my first telephone interview last week. Well, so far I ...

So this morning I had my first ever telephone interview. I think the word 'interview' is somewhat of a misnomer in this case, because the 'view' part originally came from the Latin 'videre', meaning to see, and there was no seeing here, just talking. Still, I suppose they were seeing how suitable I was for the job....no, scratch that, seeing ...

No, I don't mean about thesis length - I'm well within the limits there. Instead, I'm talking about how long one should be expected to wait to hear back from employers. I am still dumbfounded by the lack of response from many of the employers to whom I applied for a job. At least in one case, I did receive an email saying that they would not be ...

Readers of previous entries in my blog will know that I've begun applying for jobs. Earlier this week, I attended an Assessment Centre; in other words, a job interview for 25 people at a time. I had done some preparation for it, but I did not know really what to expect, seeing as the last time I went to an Assessment Centre was six years ago. In ...

It's great being a research student - no mid-semester exams to worry about. I mention that because I've heard undergrads go on about it a fair amount recently. However, I'm not completely free of the seemingly omnipresent assessment monster. On the weekend, I was required to sit a series of online tests as part of a job application. A couple of ...

I want to say I'm sorry to people who may have been waiting for a blog entry from me for a while. I don't have a much of an excuse. It's not like I've been away on holidays or something. Although I enjoyed the two extra days away from writing last weekend, I've put in some work on my thesis each university working day. This is in contrast to ...

One of my most cherished possessions in recent weeks (/months) has been a set of headphones and some music I have copied across to my computer from CDs. ''Why?'' I hear you ask. It's an interesting thing to cherish. One reason is that the music can relax me when I feel stressed. The other reason is that it can drown out noise, say from the ...

I have to admit I've been a little distracted over the last few days. This is probably due to only having a small number of pages to perform corrections on between my meetings. I have got 2 1/2 weeks between them this time, and I can only be enthused about syndrome decoding for some, not all, of that time. And thus, I think I've been bitten by the ...