Interview for PhD at Oxford

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The Boosh

aaaaaaah - you mean the only city in cornwall lol. my girlfriend is cornish pretty much - penzance (spelling?) and hayle. i know the surf beaches. st ives is a great place to potter and eat.

Yep, Truro is our capital :wink:

St. Ives is a very boring place to live though, and no prospects unless you like seasonal work in a surf shop!

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The Boosh

17

yeah i bet. my folks lived in plymouth for 3 years too so i know that place well. good old union street - safe as anything!

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The Boosh

17

can i ask, is your phd funded

Reply 44

The Boosh

17

infact, we have a lot in common, i spent 3 years in oxford too (at brookes) - gorgeous city, i envy you for going back. fancy trading places with me? you can have my exeter phd and ill take your oxford dphil

Reply 45

Revenged

Congratulations Nikk... That's great news!...

I thought you were applying to do postgrad medicine... and then I find out you've got a PhD at Oxford and i didn't know you'd applied to do a PhD... so I am a bit surprised...

but it's still great news... my brother is actually doing a PhD atm and he is really enjoying it... one thing that may surprise you (well, it surpised me) was how everyone gets involved in all the clinical trials... and i've just been talked into doing one because it would in some way help my bro... tbh, i didn't really want to do it but it's funny what you agree to for family...

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fundamentally

Pretty Boy Floyd

LMAOOOOO

Stanford >>>>>>> Oxford.

Not really.
Stanford = Imperial.
It is not even an Ivy league member ( not that this means very much )
Apart from computer science, not too many departments at stanford stand out.

Reply 47

Alan Smithee

fundamentally

Not really.
Stanford = Imperial.
It is not even an Ivy league member ( not that this means very much )
Apart from computer science, not too many departments at stanford stand out.

As you rightly say, Ivy League status means nothing.

Stanford >>> Oxford. The league tables, which do incidentally, mean more than Ivy status, prove it.

Plus, when Oxford has as its products, ignorami such as yourself, it helps qualify my contention. With this said, I have seen you partaking in orderly conversation of late, so I guess you've finally released the contents of your testes satchel... :wink:

Reply 48

nikk

Yep, Truro is our capital :wink:

St. Ives is a very boring place to live though, and no prospects unless you like seasonal work in a surf shop!

Who's group are you joining? We might meet! :O

Reply 49

tenjon

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fundamentally

Not really.
Stanford = Imperial.
It is not even an Ivy league member ( not that this means very much )
Apart from computer science, not too many departments at stanford stand out.

Bit of a stupid thing to say. Stanford is one of the best all-round universities in the world. Other than CS, its Law and Business schools, for example, both are regularly in the top 3. Maybe you meant as far as undergraduate teaching goes, I'm not sure. Maybe you were taking the piss. And maybe, just maybe, you were trying to bait a certain forum user. But anyway, it's not really fair to equate Stanford and Imperial. I know which one I would rather go to.

Pretty Boy Floyd

Stanford >>> Oxford. The league tables, which do incidentally, mean more than Ivy status, prove it.

Also a bit of a stupid thing to say. Firstly the idea the league tables can 'prove' any such claim, that one university is ">>>" than the other, is perhaps acceptable when one ranks 10th and the other ranks 30th, but when they get very close, and especially when they are in different orders in different tables, its impossible to discern the difference that you imply is there. From the 3 international league tables I have seen, Oxford and Stanford are both in the top ten; Stanford above Oxford twice, Oxford above Stanford once. Hardly the basis for one to say that one is absolutely ">>>" the other (again, whatever that really means). I agree that if I had to pick one that had the edge, I would pick Stanford. But you're not helping the debate by reducing everything to such simplistic terms.

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Alan Smithee

tom391

Bit of a stupid thing to say. Stanford is one of the best all-round universities in the world. Other than CS, its Law and Business schools, for example, both are regularly in the top 3. Maybe you meant as far as undergraduate teaching goes, I'm not sure. Maybe you were taking the piss. And maybe, just maybe, you were trying to bait a certain forum user. But anyway, it's not really fair to equate Stanford and Imperial. I know which one I would rather go to.

Also a bit of a stupid thing to say. Firstly the idea the league tables can 'prove' any such claim, that one university is ">>>" than the other, is perhaps acceptable when one ranks 10th and the other ranks 30th, but when they get very close, and especially when they are in different orders in different tables, its impossible to discern the difference that you imply is there. From the 3 international league tables I have seen, Oxford and Stanford are both in the top ten; Stanford above Oxford twice, Oxford above Stanford once. Hardly the basis for one to say that one is absolutely ">>>" the other (again, whatever that really means). I agree that if I had to pick one that had the edge, I would pick Stanford. But you're not helping the debate by reducing everything to such simplistic terms.

Simplistic terms used for simplistic minds. It's an internet forum, I don't have to have strict evidence to back up my assertions. Stanford is better than Oxfordis the point I was trying to make. The rest was just tendentious.

Anyway, who the hell are you, and what are you doing in this thread?

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The Boosh

can i ask, is your phd funded

Yep, I didn't even consider applying for non-funded ones because I am fed up with having no money and living off loans! lol.

The Boosh

infact, we have a lot in common, i spent 3 years in oxford too (at brookes) - gorgeous city, i envy you for going back. fancy trading places with me? you can have my exeter phd and ill take your oxford dphil

Exeter is a lovely city as well (although i've only been there three times so I could be wrong).

Revenged

Congratulations Nikk... That's great news!...

I thought you were applying to do postgrad medicine... and then I find out you've got a PhD at Oxford and i didn't know you'd applied to do a PhD... so I am a bit surprised...

but it's still great news... my brother is actually doing a PhD atm and he is really enjoying it... one thing that may surprise you (well, it surpised me) was how everyone gets involved in all the clinical trials... and i've just been talked into doing one because it would in some way help my bro... tbh, i didn't really want to do it but it's funny what you agree to for family...

Hey dude!

Yeah I know lol. The thing is i've had a lot on at uni and so haven't been posting much. I have even more work now but am better organised so feel I have a bit more time for time wasting on TSR :biggrin:

I was going to go for medicine but the work experience put me off. I basically decided that I was far more interested in the science aspect than the medicine. Plus I love research! And I didn't fancy learning the names of all those drugs lol :p:

(it gives me a headache just thinking about it!)

I don't think I fancy being a lab rat for new cancer therapeutics! I like my cells just the way they are :smile:

shiny

Who's group are you joining? We might meet! :O

Medical sciences division: radiation oncology and biology.

How about you? :biggrin:

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ChemistBoy

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fundamentally

Apart from computer science, not too many departments at stanford stand out.

The best university to study engineering in the world and only computer science stands out? What are you talking about?

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nikk

Medical sciences division: radiation oncology and biology.

How about you? :biggrin:

does that mean you'll end up at the new Biomed Eng building at the hospital? (jealous! :redface:

) i'm doing applied maths, applied to biological systems that is, so i hang around biological/medically types a lot.

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ChemistBoy

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shiny

does that mean you'll end up at the new Biomed Eng building at the hospital? (jealous! :redface:

) i'm doing applied maths, applied to biological systems that is, so i hang around biological/medically types a lot.

I bet you get some funny looks.

Reply 55

ChemistBoy

I bet you get some funny looks.

Tell me about it :rolleyes:

No-one understands what I do for them. Not that they care, as long as the right results come out :rolleyes:

Reply 56

OP

shiny

does that mean you'll end up at the new Biomed Eng building at the hospital? (jealous! :redface:

) i'm doing applied maths, applied to biological systems that is, so i hang around biological/medically types a lot.

I'm not sure what they are calling it, but it is a new centre (currently being built), and I know it is opposite a hospital where they are also building a new building that specialises in cancer and is where a lot of the clinical trials will be conducted. Whether that is the same place you are talking about I couldn't say since I am not familiar with the area yet!

shiny

so i hang around biological/medically types a lot

Well it cannot be denied that we are definitely the coolest out of the three sciences.... :wink:

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OP

shiny

Tell me about it :rolleyes:

No-one understands what I do for them. Not that they care, as long as the right results come out :rolleyes:

Lol! That is often true, particularly with statistics....

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nikk

I'm not sure what they are calling it, but it is a new centre (currently being built), and I know it is opposite a hospital where they are also building a new building that specialises in cancer and is where a lot of the clinical trials will be conducted. Whether that is the same place you are talking about I couldn't say since I am not familiar with the area yet!

Yeah, should be the same place.

nikk

Well it cannot be denied that we are definitely the coolest out of the three sciences.... :wink:

Indeed. I might have to scrounge some data off you so then I can apply my cool math models to it :wink:

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OP