myResearchSpace

Here's something amusing yet annoying which happened to me over the last few days. Last Thursday evening I finished another version of a chapter. So, the standard process is for SupB to read through it first. They then give me comments, which I deal with before I send it off to SupA again. Now sometimes SupB takes a long time to return the printed ...

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 ...

It seems sometimes that these days I just can't win. A big part of the problem is having two supervisors to satisfy. Let's say SupA is currently overseas and SupB is here. Now SupA is the main supervisor so ultimately it's them that I need to appease, however I can only speak to them once every few weeks. Today, I received comments back from SupA ...

I really haven't been productive (thesis-)writing-wise today. I found there was a niggling problem with what I was trying to prove. Fortunately, some webpages and a colleague came to the rescue, and with what appears to be some quite legal hand-waving special consideration, it should be OK. I also have to confess to a second caffeine hit for the ...

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 ...

I used to think that I had good written communications skills, but now I'm not so sure. The reason? I have sent quite a few emails over recent weeks on various matters, however a large portion of them seem to have been ignored. I'm trying to work out what went wrong. Do they not like my writing style? Or am I not being aggressive enough? Or do ...

Google are offering a service in which they will host email for educational users. The email address would be <student>@grs.uwa.edu.au but underlying it would be the standard gmail account with 2GB of storage space. Do you think this is something that UWA Graduate Students (i.e. you) would be interested in if this was offered? The benefit ...