Last straw snaping

[arkhamexile]

Yesterdays I was putting together my references, it was taking for ever, but I had them done 89 of them for one report. Not all the other stuff I have read and had to keep up with. The week before that I had been desperately trying to put together a transfer report 60 pages trying to say what my project was doing and what my PhD would be "if I got

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[kieran418]

From what I recall being told about research projects, it's not about "proving" anything, but more about disproving other possibilities, and sometimes doing this disproves the thing that you were trying to prove in the first place. This doesn't make the research any less valid as it closes another route for further research, and so progresses the cause further, therefore making it valid research and providing a valuable end product.
Surely the work that you have produced will (when they work out AI and vision processing) be of use to people trying to apply further concepts to the feild in which you are working. Still doesn't sound much like engineering to me though.
Just pad it out with theories and bullshit and put it in a nice shiny format and you'll be fine.

[arkhamexile]

Well it would be if it was going along the lines I wanted but unfortunately there does not seem to be that sort of push. The odd part is that I think
the psychology part of it is more important then the hardware. As it is trouble
is not so much getting information to people but peoples brains filtering it
out automatically.
There is some work going on about this but nil chance at this date I could
what I am working on shoved over that way. Or that this place has the hardware
to do it.
O well just hope the bull shit carry me though till February when I can start to work on writeup

[erindellr]

1) Congratulations on looking at the UK option with Angel.

2) If the report is all over the place, than that is as much your supervisor's fault, as yours. If not more so. Frankly, if he does not have a clue about what you are doing, the pressures you are under, or the sort of backup you have - he is doing a pisspoor job of managing the project, let alone supervising you.

3) Reports are cobbled together. Ditto research. Ditto life in general. Salvage what you can and get the PhD or qualification, if only so you have gained something from your time in Guildford. Then, India.

4) Good luck.

[arkhamexile]

Cheer Nat I am trying to but very frustrating, part of it is the whole square peg thing. I have the feeling what I really need is a new second supervisor from the psychology side of things. I have the odd feeling I could be doing things that are ether really stupid or really unnecessary.

[erindellr]

I can see how that is morale-sapping. No chance of any support, or links with the psychology dept?

[arkhamexile]

I don't think so the Uni here is very very territorial, Which is stupid as it is really the cross over points in disciplines where something is happening. Also it would give the Doc's, Prof's, Tutors a chance to double word score the work. Sending it into publications from each field with just a change of emphasis.