I've managed to score the two people I most wanted to be my supervisors ... I won't name them here, as I keep full names of people in my personal life out of my public blog posts, but let's just say they're two very eminent historians and I'm having a hard time believing that I've had such astonishingly good luck.
Congratulations!
Regular life has been pretty dull since my return from Europe in August
How can life ever be dull? :-)
Hope everything goes well with you. (Not knowing anything about the rest of your post, I'll wisely keep quiet. Just make sure to start posting more. :-))
Life's a bit more dull when you don't have the Swiss Alps outside your window, you know? ;)
I keep saying I want to get back into the habit of writing regularly ... certainly, I feel better about things the more I write, so keeping this regularly updated could be a part of that. If only I could think of topics!
Life's a bit more dull when you don't have the Swiss Alps outside your window, you know? ;)
lol. That's no excuse. :-)
The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder
I keep saying I want to get back into the habit of writing regularly ... certainly, I feel better about things the more I write, so keeping this regularly updated could be a part of that. If only I could think of topics!
COngratulations on handing your thesis in! I'm currently vaguely writing my masters thesis, bleh, though having a break for a holiday atm.
Good work getting such great supervisors too. :) I was recently at a conference in my field, wherein I discovered that my supervisor is The Man (or, at least, ONE of the men to know), which was pretty cool, he knows everyone. :)
I figured I'd simply skip Masters and go directly to PhD ... plus, right now, even an 80,000 word thesis doesn't seem that long to me.
Ooh, nice. One of my supervisors not only seems to know everybody, but is related to a good couple of them too. My other supervisor ... well, whenever he appears in the media, it's just too easy to pick what side of the political fence the journalist is on by how they write about him.
If you do honours, going on to PhD makes sense. I decided to skip honours and do an MPhil instead, so as to get a research qualification sooner, and I was just so tired of being graded, heh. I'm not planning on doing a PhD for a while, 4 years dedicated to studying one thing is a bit daunting and I just want a break from uni.
Related? That's pretty funny. Although I guess my undergrad major (physics) was what my parents studied in uni, so there's probably a slight tendency for people who are related to be interested in similar fields...
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I've managed to score the two people I most wanted to be my supervisors ... I won't name them here, as I keep full names of people in my personal life out of my public blog posts, but let's just say they're two very eminent historians and I'm having a hard time believing that I've had such astonishingly good luck.
Congratulations!
Regular life has been pretty dull since my return from Europe in August
How can life ever be dull? :-)
Hope everything goes well with you. (Not knowing anything about the rest of your post, I'll wisely keep quiet. Just make sure to start posting more. :-))
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I keep saying I want to get back into the habit of writing regularly ... certainly, I feel better about things the more I write, so keeping this regularly updated could be a part of that. If only I could think of topics!
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lol. That's no excuse. :-)
The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder
I keep saying I want to get back into the habit of writing regularly ... certainly, I feel better about things the more I write, so keeping this regularly updated could be a part of that. If only I could think of topics!
I'm sure you'll have no problem with that! :-)
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Good work getting such great supervisors too. :) I was recently at a conference in my field, wherein I discovered that my supervisor is The Man (or, at least, ONE of the men to know), which was pretty cool, he knows everyone. :)
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Ooh, nice. One of my supervisors not only seems to know everybody, but is related to a good couple of them too. My other supervisor ... well, whenever he appears in the media, it's just too easy to pick what side of the political fence the journalist is on by how they write about him.
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Related? That's pretty funny. Although I guess my undergrad major (physics) was what my parents studied in uni, so there's probably a slight tendency for people who are related to be interested in similar fields...
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It doesn't take much to talk you (or rather, yourself) into gigs, does it? ;)
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