PhD support group?

CrazyChemist_2

misskool wrote:

Hello leni and chemgirl!

I'm suffering late night insomnia at the moment worrying about my experiments. I go on holiday in 2 weeks for 3 weeks and plan to start writing up but have a bad feeling that I won't be able to start according to plan....

Now, if only my supervisor would return from his summer holiday!!

My favorite trick in trying to get the pressure off is to do something that I wouldn't normally do! Take a break, a few days off and do nothing. Sit, watch TV, go to a few gigs, just let your brain recover. When you're calmer, you can look at things in perspective.

Although perspective at 2:15am is a bit hard to find....:D

Oh no you don't. no insomnia for you. You're too clever and too far down the track for this kind of thing to throw your confidence. I recommend Baileys as a good sleeping aid (in moderation!!) but worrying about it isn't going to help you. If you're thinking constructively then fine but just worrying about it is not going to help you. You're on the right track, though TV isn't all that relaxing for me with all the junk on nowadays :rolleyes: It helped me to just sit/walk in a park for an afternoon just to get the smell and claustrophobia of the lab and work out of the system.

Sorry if this sounds muddled - I'm working till 8am in pathology and I need to keep dashing off and coming back Bye and good luck you can do it and keep positive :T

misskool

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

why do things not work when you're at the END of your phd?
Photoshop here I come... (Just kidding)

I'm so bored of repeating experiments....

Sorry, for anyone else who's working on a Saturday, it's all worth it, right?
right?

charts

misskool wrote:

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

why do things not work when you're at the END of your phd?
Photoshop here I come... (Just kidding)

I was looking on eBay the other day and figured that if it all goes pear shaped there are always lots of doctoral certificates available on there

misskool wrote:

Sorry, for anyone else who's working on a Saturday, it's all worth it, right?
right?

I hope so...! If it makes you feel any better I'm working now too. In fact, I can't remember the last time I didn't work at the weekend on both Saturday and Sunday. I never feel like too much of an outcast as there are usually loads of people in at the weekend. Saw the head of dept in there last Sunday about 7p.m.... so maybe it's not that much better when you've done! :rolleyes:

melancholly

misskool wrote:

Sorry, for anyone else who's working on a Saturday, it's all worth it, right?
right?

i hope so!! sitting in my office right now............ but the building's nice and empty and i'm more productive (apart from a break on here!!)

misskool

In some strange way, I'm quite glad that I'm not the only sad one who's working at the weekends! (and people wonder why I'm still single after all this time??)

Misery loves company...and all that.

melancholly

misskool wrote:

In some strange way, I'm quite glad that I'm not the only sad one who's working at the weekends! (and people wonder why I'm still single after all this time??)

Misery loves company...and all that.

i have a stupidly understanding OH!!
i have just finished what will hopefully be the final rewrite of a paper before i submit it........ can breathe out at last.

back to the well overdue literature summary of a new area - by the end of today i want to be able to see my desk having filed away the heaps of references i need to summarise.........

just think of the well paid jobs with good long term security at the end of it.............. oh hang on !

CrazyChemist_2

It may have been covered elsewhere in the thread but with 16 pages @ 40 posts per page I'm not going to go check because I'm too impatient to do so (says the guy who spends his life performing intricate analysis of blood and urine samples :rolleyes: )

What kind of funding have you got and is it secure or must you apply each year? I was lucky in that the NHS funded mine but I am now paying by signing a large chunk of my life to them. I opted for it though because it needed no input on my half apart from the time aspect, obviously.

misskool

melancholly- good luck with the paper!

CC- My funding is just about running out and I should be sorted next year but it's still stressful sorting it all out. I was supported by the university.

And can someone tell me why phenol/chloform extraction is the most boring thing ever invented?

CrazyChemist_2

misskool wrote:

And can someone tell me why phenol/chloform extraction is the most boring thing ever invented?

Boring?!?!?!?!??! :eek:

Fine, call it boring, I don't care

misskool

CrazyChemist wrote:

Boring?!?!?!?!??! :eek:

Fine, call it boring, I don't care

:rotfl: :rotfl:

What's exciting then?