GOGSoc Episode VIII: I'm a surviva!

So finally. 12 years after joining TSR. 7 years after effectively leaving TSR. I can FINALLY justifiably post in GOGSoc.

For some reason nothing shows up for me in your spoiler, @letsdothetimewarpagain

Welcome

So finally. 12 years after joining TSR. 7 years after effectively leaving TSR. I can FINALLY justifiably post in GOGSoc.

I have my Year 1 progress review in a week - any tips/questions to expect?

what's the format?

for me it was presentation and panel questions. Let me know if similar and I/the other lovelies here can advise

I have a PowerPoint presentation prepared, and then examiner questions. I pre-submitted my updated proposal, timeline etc. for them to look at too.

My progress review went really well

And from tomorrow I'm attending a 3-day Zoom conference, so it's all go!

Yes! Go you!

What was the format like?

My progress review went really well

And from tomorrow I'm attending a 3-day Zoom conference, so it's all go!

*sigh* I uploaded my conference poster & video onto the conference platform on Friday, and my account immediately got disabled for 'spam'. It took the whole day for my account to be reinstated, only for my poster/video to still be flagged as spam and isn't publicly viewable. I'm meant to be presenting on Wednesday (with the first day of the conference being tomorrow), so I'm not best pleased.

The conference platform is run by a company in the USA, so talking to someone about it means waiting due to the time difference. Apparently I'm not the only one affected, as they've made their spam filter extra sensitive recently.

Urgh, that sounds like a complete nightmare Hugs!

I did a presentation of my reading/work on my project so far, and then my internal examiner made some comments and asked me questions, and then the panel deliberated and that was that. I came away with some food for thought and advice, so it was good.

My chair (who is also my personal tutor) had never chaired a meeting before, so it was quite nice to do it with someone else who also was new to it all!

That's awesome! Did you enjoy it? Was the feedback helpful?

It really was. A lot of it verbalised what I was already thinking, and helped me scale down my project (I think I was trying to cover two PhD projects worth of stuff)!