Everyone needs a wing man. My selves have been a bit totally out if it lately. We’ve been moody and grumpy and tearful and stressed. We were beginning to wonder if we could cope. With anything. A PhD, it turns out, is quite stressful. Especially that statistics stuff. In fact, life aged very-nearly-30, it turns [...]
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This week has been fraught. Busy, busy, busy in schools doing my data collection, interspersed with trying to prepare myself for my first presentation of said ‘data’ on Friday. All I saw were blank faces. Which was probably all they saw when they started asking me questions. Still, my supervisor said it was good so [...]
Don’t scoff a bag of Haribos 5 minutes before going for a run. Really, really not a good idea. How I even managed to persuade my selves to go running at the end of a 10.5 hour day of work that involved smiling for the little ones, going blind over Excel sheets and replying to [...]
Just because you can run a marathon, doesn’t mean you can run 10k. There’s optimism for you. But, really, all I could muster after work this evening was a measly 3.2 miles. And not a particular speedy 3.2 miles, at that. How I ever ran a marathon is beyond me. And yet my next ‘race’ [...]
SPSS is only useful for analysing data if you know how to use it. And I, well, don’t. I have a feeling that at least one of my selves should know how to use it. I’m fairly certain that we have, in the course of our studies, attended many a class on it. But I’m [...]
A PhD might not be quite what you expect. I have spent the last 2 days photoshopping pictures of cucumbers, bananas and other various fruits in order to make ‘face-like objects’ for my first study. It’s not quite what I imagined myself doing when I thought about me and a PhD. It’s so much more [...]
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PhD grants are clearly intended to be spent on holidays. I am very, very close to booking myself an over-priced week of sun and beach for sometime very soon. I may spontaneously combust otherwise. Last week was stressful. This week is looking to be even more stressful. Every one of my 7 selves is juggling [...]