Tag: academia

Nothing quite compares to the feeling of uploading your master’s dissertation to the submission portal of your university.

With this, my master’s degree in the UK ends. A year abroad ends. A year of speaking a foreign language day and night, in personal interaction and professional academia. A year of living in London – and what a city it is, ancient and maddening and incomparably breathtaking. 

Now, I am free from everything for the littlest while. Until the PhD begins. We all need a last break to recharge and focus before we continue our ascent. 

I can’t wait to see what else lies ahead in this world for me.

heeey i wanted to do your dissertation study but i couldn’t get past the select your gender page because it had no nonbinary option. this may sound like a stupid reason but i won’t misgender myself because that sucks a lot and the option of prefer not to say made me feel like the only other option i had was to hide my gender, which also sucks a lot. i’m sure you had your reasons but especially if you’re looking for participants on the internet it would be good to be more inclusive

Hello,

thank you for notifying me on this. I indeed did not consider this when setting up the study, I’m sorry. Sadly the study is already running and cannot be changed but I will consider it in my future research. Thank you for wanting to participate and sending this message!

Help me with my dissertation and look at some cool fingerprints!

Hello everyone, I need participants for my dissertation study! 

You will learn how to analyse and compare real fingerprints and have the chance to win a 20 £ amazon voucher. It should only take 15-30 minutes and I’m happy about every participant! Thank you so much beforehand.

https://opinio.ucl.ac.uk/s?s=56270

Please do finish the study once you start it as this is very important for proper analysis. You will analyse 4 latent prints (A-D) and compare each print to six exemplar prints each.

This is okay to reblog!

Share your PhD experiences.

Dear internet,

I am currently in my masters degree. After graduating, I’d like to pursue a PhD. Please share your own PhD experiences with me (either as a reply or reblog to this post, or in my tumblr inbox – anon or not). 

Question in particular that I am interested in (no need to answer all!):

– your subject area/research topic
– country of your PhD institution (and would you recommend it?)
– (expected) duration of your PhD
– reasons you do a PhD
– what you like most about the experience
– obstacles and problems you have encountered
– estimated hours per week that you dedicate to your research
– estimated amount of free time you are able to take for yourself
– how stressful you find the experience

I’m looking forward to really interesting reports. Answer whatever you feel comfortable with – I won’t publish any of the asks you submit to me, though I will possibly reply to you via chat if you add to the message that that’s alright with you.

Thank you kindly!

Dissertation: finished. || 17th of September, 2017.

( p e r s o n a l . )

Written. Printed. Signed that I did not plagiarize the entire thing which is necessary for legal reasons but idiotic considering I cited sources for about every single sentence and read more than 120 articles and various books. Mailed for a horrendously high postal fee.

And hopefully arriving and submitted by Thursday. The old degree concludes, and I say this confidently looking at all the hours I put into this thesis, with great scientific work, and the new degree has started with so much new science to learn.

Sometimes academia and science gut you with a blunt knife, but other times you suddenly contribute actual insights and advance the knowledge of your field. And that’s just wild and goddamn fantastic.

Academia and science are basically just asking a lot of questions, finding maybe one answer once, thinking that you know nothing compared to everyone else while everyone else thinks they know nothing either, and citing your goddamn sources.