GOGSoc Episode VI: The GoG, the Bad and the Ugly

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Reply 40

The_Lonely_Goatherd

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by Ally Kat

Eek!! So, so happy for you :smile:

What fantastic news!

p.s. Loving the new thread name :smile:

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Thank you

Reply 41

Feefifofum

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by The_Lonely_Goatherd

ZOMG, I GOT OFFERED A PAID INTERNSHIP TO START IN JANUARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :woo:

It's in music education, which will prepare me quite well for this SOAS-IoE thing :colone:

I'm so happy right now. This has been such a good week for me :colondollar:

YAY! Oh I'm so pleased for you, that's fantastic news! :biggrin:

Reply 42

The_Lonely_Goatherd

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by Feefifofum

YAY! Oh I'm so pleased for you, that's fantastic news! :biggrin:

Thankies. Excited/scared ****less doesn't quite cover my emotions atm. Still in shock :o:

Reply 43

scarlet ibis

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by The_Lonely_Goatherd

ZOMG, I GOT OFFERED A PAID INTERNSHIP TO START IN JANUARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :woo:

It's in music education, which will prepare me quite well for this SOAS-IoE thing :colone:

I'm so happy right now. This has been such a good week for me :colondollar:

Fabulous news! :hugs:

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Reply 44

Piggsil

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by The_Lonely_Goatherd

ZOMG, I GOT OFFERED A PAID INTERNSHIP TO START IN JANUARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :woo:

It's in music education, which will prepare me quite well for this SOAS-IoE thing :colone:

I'm so happy right now. This has been such a good week for me :colondollar:

Brilliant, well done!! You really deserve it, so happy for you! :biggrin:

Yay: new thread! :yy:

Yay: Christmas holidays! :yy:

Boo: probable chest infection day before I am due to go on a plane... :colonhash:

Reply 45

ktr

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by The_Lonely_Goatherd

ZOMG, I GOT OFFERED A PAID INTERNSHIP TO START IN JANUARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :woo:

It's in music education, which will prepare me quite well for this SOAS-IoE thing :colone:

I'm so happy right now. This has been such a good week for me :colondollar:

Yay! Congrats!! An excellent early Christmas gift.

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by Becca

Boo: probable chest infection day before I am due to go on a plane... :colonhash:

Oh, no! Hope it isn't so that your flight isn't too miserable.

Reply 46

Little Jules

Somehow this thread was v hard to find! New flat will still have no Internet for another few weeks...

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Reply 47

aeterno

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by The_Lonely_Goatherd

ZOMG, I GOT OFFERED A PAID INTERNSHIP TO START IN JANUARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :woo:

It's in music education, which will prepare me quite well for this SOAS-IoE thing :colone:

I'm so happy right now. This has been such a good week for me :colondollar:

Congratulations! :awesome:

How long is it for?

I'm absolutely mentally/physically exhausted after this past week. I've got into the 'I need sleep/I've got essays to do for January that I should really get started on or I'll panic write everything again/**** it, I'll start them in January and just sleep forever until then/I'm going to eat everything in the house' stage :sigh:

I'm just sitting here watching random **** on youtube and contemplating opening a bottle of wine all for myself :colonhash:

Reply 48

Aeschylus

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by The_Lonely_Goatherd

Thankies. Excited/scared ****less doesn't quite cover my emotions atm. Still in shock :o:

YAY. Well done.

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by aeterno

I'm absolutely mentally/physically exhausted after this past week. I've got into the 'I need sleep/I've got essays to do for January that I should really get started on or I'll panic write everything again/**** it, I'll start them in January and just sleep forever until then/I'm going to eat everything in the house' stage :sigh:

I'm just sitting here watching random **** on youtube and contemplating opening a bottle of wine all for myself :colonhash:

Don't worry. Same boat here.

Reply 49

The Lyceum

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Reply 50

The_Lonely_Goatherd

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by scarlet ibis

Fabulous news! :hugs:

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by Becca

Brilliant, well done!! You really deserve it, so happy for you! :biggrin:

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by ktr

Yay! Congrats!! An excellent early Christmas gift.

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by aeterno

Congratulations! :awesome:

How long is it for?

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by Aeschylus

YAY. Well done.

Thankies everyone :biggrin:

Reply 51

apotoftea

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by The_Lonely_Goatherd

ZOMG, I GOT OFFERED A PAID INTERNSHIP TO START IN JANUARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :woo:

It's in music education, which will prepare me quite well for this SOAS-IoE thing :colone:

I'm so happy right now. This has been such a good week for me :colondollar:

Congrats

Reply 52

The_Lonely_Goatherd

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by apotoftea

Congrats

Thank you

I still can't quite believe it. I'm gonna have MONEY. Not a lot, but some more at least. So many plans for what to do with it too! :colone:

In other happy news, my DLA for January came in yesterday. Which means I can afford to buy my dad a present. Also, perhaps more importantly ( :getmecoat:

), I can afford the Boxing Day sales :colone:

Reply 53

Bluth.

Out of interest, do you guys talk much about your research with family members?

I'm very quickly working out who out of my family is/isn't receptive to conversations about research/uni/science etc. Strangely, my identical twin sister (who took the same undergrad degree course) is the least interested- not that I blame her. My Dad, on the other hand, seems genuinely fascinated. We send each other cool ( :tongue:

) articles on statistics and issues in scientific research :biggrin:

My grandparents try hard to keep up with what I am doing and can handle the 'bigger picture' side of things, which I really admire.

It's funny how just mentioning a PhD changes how people interact with you...

Reply 54

hobnob

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by Bluth.

Out of interest, do you guys talk much about your research with family members?

Not at all with my father, because he doesn't understand the first thing about research and only has a vague sense that I'm 'working too hard' and should try to 'relax' more. :rolleyes:

My mother, on the other hand, doesn't completely get what my thesis is about, which can be a bit frustrating at times, but at least she's genuinely interested and makes an effort to understand, so when she asks me to explain anything in detail I will. Everybody else just gets my grossly simplified standard reply to the dreaded 'so what's your thesis about?' question, though. Going into more detail would only bore them to tears and be a waste of time because they're not really that interested.

For what it's worth, I don't think mentioning that you're doing a PhD really changes the way people interact with you, it's just that they seem to feel obliged to act like they're interested. They rarely are, though. :frown:

Reply 55

Craghyrax

Lots of that.

I really, really hate talking about my research to other people. While I appreciate the fact that my Dad takes an interest, I just don't think he gets it, so its very frustrating that he constantly insists that I provide details of what exactly I'm doing. He then listens, repeats a wrong, simplified version back, and pronounces an incorrect view on it :sigh:

And then he promptly forgets everything and I have to go through it all the next time I see him, six months later :banghead:

He did a Political Science degree, so he feels he's close enough to the subject area to understand. But he always hated theory, and my work is very theoretical. Also he's quite conservative and traditional, so I prefer to avoid talking about politics or academia entirely.
With other people, even if they are interested, I really don't like having to talk about it, because its very hard to find an accessible summary of what I'm doing. And its never rewarding. If I *do* actually manage to summarise it, the person then just imagines it as being something completely unrelated. For instance the most common response people have to hearing about my work is, 'oh, I've got a friend whose researching Twitter!' (or, with non academic people, 'oh, once a upon a time I read an article that had something to do with social networking sites').... when Twitter is completely unrelated to TSR, and TSR is not an SNS :sigh:

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Reply 56

Bluth.

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by hobnob

For what it's worth, I don't think mentioning that you're doing a PhD really changes the way people interact with you, it's just that they seem to feel obliged to act like they're interested. They rarely are, though. :frown:

It's probably exacerbated at this time of year, when people feel obliged to find out what's going on in other people's lives. I'm learning how to put up with the looks of disappointment when I don't start talking about Freud/criminal profiling/psychosis/marriage counselling/ESP/the behaviour of their pet cat...I'm such a let down :tongue:

Reply 57

The Lyceum