GOGSoc the Third

It's time for the Grumpy Old Graduate Society. Post here if you want to join and for GOG chat. (I edit to put in a list of the members when I get the chance).


Honourable Members (who are half these people?)



Associates (Those who are grumpy but not yet graduates)

Who are the associates?

Honourary Members

Chuck Norris (First Class Honours in Pain)

What rotten luck!

P.S. Isn't it annoying when someone quotes you in a post with no title?

Try this instead: http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?p=16769744#post16769744

I'm slightly shocked that you've repped me almost twice as many times as anyone else, and have given me more than twice as much as the second-most person has!

Well, not just meet rep. I tend to rep people for interesting or intelligent posts, and similarly a meets for interesting and intelligent conversations. Or for being hot.

Anyway, I managed to produce the computery stuff I needed to do thanks to my best friend's creaky 7 year old laptop. No idea how it coped, but cope it did, and eventually it spat out the print off I needed. Phew.

Ok a serious question (sorry to ruin the tone of a saturday evening) - it's stupid to apply for another PhD just for the hell of it isn't it? Knowing full well I'd have to live at home again, and topic will be tweaked to the extent I won't be happy with it, just to fit with another supervisor?

I might just apply here as a back up plan, as don't think topic would be tweaked as much and I get on with potential supervisor. Hmmmm, putting all my eggs in the same basket has never stopped me before but now it's getting serious

yay. Glad its sorted out for you now.

Well, not just meet rep. I tend to rep people for interesting or intelligent posts, and similarly a meets for interesting and intelligent conversations. Or for being hot.

Me too! I've now got about 800 more words to write today and the bibliography to sort, then I get to print it off tomorrow. End is in sight!

There's nothing to lose by merely applying, surely? If you decide once you have the offer that you don't want to spend another three years at RoHo then you can always turn them down. I say go for it. (Says he who has only applied for one PhD)

Apot - I ditto the soc and the 'lex. Why not apply to roho/UCL now, as it seems as if, from reading other threads, Oxford take ages to get back to you anyway. I would have thought applying to the uni that you are currently at is a fairly quick process so at least you would be able to panic less knowing that you had a backup option sorted (you're probably not panicking, it's me that does that). Backup options are lovely, I spend my whole time planning backups rather than the proper thing - I completely encourage such behaviour

I've never had backup options, but I still recommend them

*twiddles thumbs*

That's cos you're a wild man, living on the edge.
Noone knows what you'll do next.
All: Coz he's the SOOOOOC MAAAAAAN.

*sings*.

That's cos you're a wild man, living on the edge.
Noone knows what you'll do next.
All: Coz he's the SOOOOOC MAAAAAAN.

*sings*.

I like

Apot - I ditto the soc and the 'lex. Why not apply to roho/UCL now, as it seems as if, from reading other threads, Oxford take ages to get back to you anyway. I would have thought applying to the uni that you are currently at is a fairly quick process so at least you would be able to panic less knowing that you had a backup option sorted (you're probably not panicking, it's me that does that). Backup options are lovely, I spend my whole time planning backups rather than the proper thing - I completely encourage such behaviour

Is it me, or is it so much easier to sound convincing when you're only pretending to know what you're doing, as opposed to actually rigorously going through what you do know? I just finished the "Here's what my PhD might be on" part of my proposal and even though I haven't got a ******* clue about the massive conceptual difficulties it will attempt to resolve, I damn well sound like it Par contre, the explanations of my actual project are full of hesitation and reserve.

That's what's so ***** about PhD proposals, not only do you have to lie, you have to lie whilst knowing that the person who reads it knows you are telling porkies whilst trying to earnestly convince them it isn't a lie even though you know that it is and they know that you know that it is.