PhD support group?

ollyshaw

you have dodged a bullet there space age!

hostie

hello and
night night

from hostie

misskool

I am bored of my phd today. Does surfing for hours on the internet count as work?

melancholly

misskool wrote:

I am bored of my phd today. Does surfing for hours on the internet count as work?

i hope so

i'm actually preparing a presentation today (in between surfing!).... making graphs look pretty and things.... useful and necessary but not too demanding!

(i have to get back to the evil paper tomorrow..... but an extra day off will probably do me good!)

talksalot81

I remember the days when i got so bored as to be surfing for ages... oh to have those days back and oh how I wish Id never done it... I wouldnt have to be working so hard now if I had just done some work!

pug_in_a_bed

crumbs, just heard about my teaching for this semester. I'll be taking three groups for tutorials a week, with about 20 students in each group!

Soooo worried about this, especially as its sods law that I haven't read any of the texts for it. The only teaching I've ever done is a teeny bit of tutoring for gcse, so worried, its only going to be my fisrt semester for PhD and I don't even know where I'm at with that! When i was an undergrad tutor groups had about 5 students in...

I actually dreamt about it last night.

Can you tell I'm a worrier...:o

talksalot81

20 students is a bit much for a tutorial group, it is more like a seminar really! So in that sense it may actually make it easer for you because it probably is better suited to a more in depth preparation.

Also do not forget that this is actually training for you as well. You shouldnt feel too much pressure to be fantastic at first, you have to learn. If you are expected to do it all on your own and the students get no backup from a faculty member, the fault is with your department, not you!

misskool

If you're doing the same tuturial/seminar for the three groups, that would make it easier, although the marking will be quite harsh.

Sorry to be nosey as I didn't read your other thread but what are you doing your phd in? And don't worry about teaching too much, you really do know more than them.

I worried when I first started wondering if they knew more than me but at the end it was alright.

Good luck!!

DrFluffy

I much prefered doing seminars to tutes - seminars are less intense, and you can easily hide from a smart !!!!!!...;) One on ones can be :eek:

pug_in_a_bed

My phd is in english lit.

They are such big groups that I think they might have to run more like a seminar than the informal tutorials I'm used to. All three sessions are actually for the same course, so the first group will have me a nrevous wreck but hopefully by the third it'll be a totally different experience.
You know that feeling when you've committed to something and then :eek: