GOGSoc Episode V: The GOG Strikes Back

Reply 1160

flying plum

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wosrt thing is, now i haven't done any work all morning, because have been looking at blasted rightmove.

Reply 1161

sj27

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by Craghyrax

You guys make it sound as though its an unpleasant journey for everyone. That simply isn't true. While it is slow and annoying, the buses are very new and reasonably comfortable. And I know very many people who have travelled on it without noticing any problems or discomfort at all. Its only if you get travel sickness that its a problem. Otherwise its a really good deal. I get mildly travel sick in cars, and there was one X5 journey where I suffered because the driver was being more manic and speedy than usual around the roundabouts. But every other one (must have travelled 10-15 times) was ok.
Also the temperature issue probably bothers hobnob more than most. It has a heater in winter and air conditioning in summer, in a fairly binary manner. So bring layers.

Popping a motion sickness pill, or chewing some ginger and/or mint seems an easy solution...?

Reply 1162

Drogue

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by Socrates

On the oxford cambridge journey, I was wondering whether unless you had some need to go through mk, that it would be faster to take the m40 down to m25 and then the orbital across to a1m and through to cambridge, and then thats what google maps came up with to! Far less roundabouts as well and probably quicker. But that's all academic as the x5 will continue to take the same route and the same three hours.

Really? Googlemaps gives me the MK way. It's 20 more miles via the M25, and that's using the A10 and A1M.

Edit: That's Cambridge to Oxford. Strange that it's different. Either way, the motorway isn't a bad option, but it's a bit boring. I used to always go on the A14 via Northampton, since I could stop off at my parents' and it barely took any longer.

Reply 1163

Drogue

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Original post

by sj27

Popping a motion sickness pill, or chewing some ginger and/or mint seems an easy solution...?

Depends how bad you get motion sickness. My pills work wonderfully at stopping the sickness, but they'll knock me out for a good few hours and I'm barely with it for most of the rest of the day. To the extent that I worry about taking them if I have changes, as I'm liable to sleep through them or just not be with it enough to deal with it.

Reply 1164

Cirsium

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by obi_adorno_kenobi

She's marking the things isn't she? If it isn't happening then that's her fault. If she is marking the things and those marks are registered but is merely complaining about the lack of follow up on the issue of plagiarism (through tribunals and so on) by senior colleagues then I'm afraid I have little sympathy. I found a few cases of plagiarism when I marked papers for my classes. I put it down to the fact that the university doesn't teach writing and research skills very well in the first term. I took some marks off for not referencing properly and left it at that. Either they learn how to get a paper done or they keep on losing marks.

Maybe you weren't around when this happened last year. I'm not allowed to mark things down for plagiarism. I mean for my own tutorial group I might get away with it but this is department marking. If I do it sneakily and get caught 'taking the law into my own hands' as it were (which I would, because students routinely complain I mark too harshly, because I refuse to mark unacceptably poor work as 2i standard) I would lose all my marking and probably my teaching too. I find the idea of me arbitrarily marking students down for plagiarism rather than the department failing them outright bizarre. There's a difference between marking them down for poor referencing and literally copying and pasting chunks of text from a website. :rolleyes:

Reply 1165

sj27

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by Drogue

Depends how bad you get motion sickness. My pills work wonderfully at stopping the sickness, but they'll knock me out for a good few hours and I'm barely with it for most of the rest of the day. To the extent that I worry about taking them if I have changes, as I'm liable to sleep through them or just not be with it enough to deal with it.

I've never had that issue. Have also found though that both ginger and, to a lesser extent, peppermints work surprisingly well.

Reply 1166

scarlet ibis

Apparently, the paper I wrote is only a few tweaks and a little extra section away from submission standard. This came as a bit of a shock! It also means that I have to decide what my name is going to be for the rest of my academic life. This may sound trivial but I have a double barelled first name and so have a choice between a name that's standard and easy to spell or memorable and susceptible to mispronounciations/mis-spelling. Hmm.

Reply 1167

ice_cube

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by scarlet ibis

Apparently, the paper I wrote is only a few tweaks and a little extra section away from submission standard. This came as a bit of a shock! It also means that I have to decide what my name is going to be for the rest of my academic life. This may sound trivial but I have a double barelled first name and so have a choice between a name that's standard and easy to spell or memorable and susceptible to mispronounciations/mis-spelling. Hmm.

I would definitely go with the memorable one.

Reply 1168

scarlet ibis

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by ice_cube

I would definitely go with the memorable one.

I've been thinking that's what I'll probably do. After all it's the surname that matters really, and I won't be changing that.

Reply 1169

The Lyceum

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What do female academics who marry do in general? I'm guessing continue writing under their maiden name?

Reply 1170

Feefifofum

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Generally, yes, or if it's sufficiently distinctive go double barrelled. A lot of female married academics use their married name for personal affairs and their maiden name for publishing and work.

EDIT: Lisa Kallet and Robert Morstein Marx married and became Lisa Kallet-Marx and Robert Morstein Kallet-Marx, which I think works well, even if it is a little cumbersome.

Reply 1171

the_alba

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by The Lyceum

What do female academics who marry do in general? I'm guessing continue writing under their maiden name?

Urgh, I hate the phrase 'maiden name', it's awful. I'm not changing my name, but even if I sort of wanted to (which I don't) I probably wouldn't anyway, because it would be like all the stuff I've published up till now would just vanish. People googling me wouldn't see any of it anymore, which I think would be sad (not that anyone but me would care, but still :tongue:

). Most female academics I know didn't change their names when they got married, but I'm not sure whether that's for professional or feminist reasons or both.

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 1172

scarlet ibis

Yes, now I am going into academia at least for a while, I will be publishing under my 'maiden' name even if I get married. It's a tradition in my .family, as my mum kept her name (and not just because she had a PhD). FTB gets a thwack if he says 'now you're going to be Dr Ibis that means you can keep your name'. I can keep it anyway, dammit!

Reply 1173

Kitty Pimms

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I'm in total agreement about the maiden name thing. If I get a PhD and if I get married, I would at the very least want to be 'Dr <my name>' for most things. I'm not even sure if I would change my name for personal things to 'Mrs <his name>'. My mum did this though, for anything related to work she uses her maiden name but she also has some bank accounts etc in the joint name. She has both on her passport. I never think of her as having my dad's name, though.

Reply 1174

flying plum

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I mentioned once to my other half that, if we ever got married, i probably wouldn't change my name. He got really offended and upset, and we've never discussed it again :s-smilie:

I don't really understand why....I think he just thinks I'm being difficult, and just rejecting 'tradition' for the sake of it...

Reply 1175

The_Lonely_Goatherd

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My name is too epic to change. I can't remember whether I've mentioned it on this thread before but my first and last name translate at "Peaceful Lady War Lion". Really suits me and I don't fancy changing it :nah:

Reply 1176

Piggsil

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by flying plum

I mentioned once to my other half that, if we ever got married, i probably wouldn't change my name. He got really offended and upset, and we've never discussed it again :s-smilie:

I don't really understand why....I think he just thinks I'm being difficult, and just rejecting 'tradition' for the sake of it...

Urgh, same. Think I've mentioned this many a time in GOGsoc though! :p:

Hello everyone, I got back on Sunday after a tiring but fun week skiing in France! Only one hospitalisation in the group, so pretty successful really, apart from having to get the bus to a different airport after checking in when we were trying to get back!

Reply 1177

cpchem

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by Athena

And I have, in fact, chundered on it - didn't even make it to Milton Keynes from Oxford. A kind Goth going to his driving test in MK gave me a bottle of cherry coke because I didn't have any water with me. I really, really hope he passed so he never had to get that bus again!

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one. I threw up going to Cambridge to drop off my PhD application. Really quite annoying, given that (a) I didn't really want to go, and (b) they didn't even interview me anyway...

Reply 1178

the_alba

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David didn't get the NC job :cry2:

I'm totally shocked actually, as there were only two other shortlisted candidates, and they just aren't in his league (and I'm not just saying that - it is downright objective, stark, and ****ing obvious on every level). We don't understand. We felt this was our last chance to get out of this ****hole, because it's been looking really ****ing bleak. But no. I feel so bad for him, because he's *not doing anything wrong*. He is a brilliant academic, an internationally renowned poet, has over fifteen years' teaching experience at BA, MA, and PhD level, has a publications list as long as both your arms, etc, etc, etc. He has everything to offer, and gets rejection after rejection. It is so dispiriting. As for me, it does make me want to turn my back on academia, as I know very well that what is happening to him is going to happen to me - neither of us have nepotistic helpers, and jobs are now so scarce, and it seems that many universities have given up on appointing people from outside. It wouldn't be so bad, except that the situation at his current institution is so suicidal-making, it has become so bad and wrong and toxic. Our plan now is to try to move house, as far as commutably possible, but that will probably take years.