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!

a PhD in the future. || 11th of April, 2018.

I took the PhD offer in Canada.

I’ll be moving across an entire ocean to a country whose language I am not a native speaker of, and I’ll start pursuing my PhD in autumn, funded.

It’s mindblowing, I still can’t breathe yet, but this is it. This is where I’m going to go and who I’m going to be.

Moving abroad for my current studies was one of the most exciting and adventurous decisions I’ve ever made. I have not the faintest idea where else except to one of the best universities worldwide this will take me – as a writer, a human, as someone who aims for the moon and hopes for stars, too, along the way.

And I’m absolutely thrilled to earth and hell to find out.

a PhD offer, Canada. || 21st of March, 2018.

so that happened. wow. wow. uhm. how do I process this (I don’t, that’s how).

I’ve been admitted to a PhD program in Canada. I’m in. I could go there.

hah. it hasn’t really sunk in yet? I haven’t fully realized? and I don’t know if I’ll go because the stipend is – I don’t know if I can live off of that and there’s other factors but oh. my. god.

I have a PhD offer.

Effort won’t betray you – and neither will the shapeless beasts hiding in the periphery of your vision that swims in shadows during dusk or dawn, because they’re only here to eat what dares come close enough to harm you.

Education, learned skills and books will never leave you, lose their patience or stab you behind your old high school on a blue winter night with the pencil you once lost and never found again.

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!

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.