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WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)
Case:
Actually, getting a PhD feels like being pregnant, in your head.
P.S.: This coming from a cis male, so YMMV.
P.P.S.: The old dude at the top of the hill is a mere eight years your senior and you spend most hours psyching yourself up to make an appointment where he can tell you it needs to be a bit more roundish, but other wise not half bad, and please not to forget that in the end, it's totally your responsibility to decide when it's finished.
P.P.P.S.: You take until after the graduation ceremony to realize that this meant he trusted you and your work and wasn't a sign of him DGAFing and that you were getting on everybodies' nerves with your freaking out and shanghaiing them into reading your drafts again and again because "ZOMG, old dude DGAF!" and THAT THEY HAD BEEN TELLING YOU SO FOR WEEKS but it didn't register ...
Tremayne:
--- Quote from: Case on 15 Jan 2018, 01:44 ---Actually, getting a PhD feels like being pregnant, in your head.
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"It's not a Doctoral Thesis - it's a MIND BABY!" :-o
Akima:
"It feels rather unpleasant to have my lived experience treated as a sociological case study."
Ain't that the truth!
--- Quote from: Case on 15 Jan 2018, 01:44 ---P.P.P.S.: You take until after the graduation ceremony to realize that this meant he trusted you and your work and wasn't a sign of him DGAFing
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Hahahahaha! And I thought I was the only one! Not that I have a PhD, but I had much the same experience with my final year honours thesis.
anahata:
--- Quote from: Tremayne on 15 Jan 2018, 01:49 ---"It's not a Doctoral Thesis - it's a MIND BABY!" :-o
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Not to be confused with a brainchild....
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: Case on 15 Jan 2018, 01:44 ---P.P.S.: The old dude at the top of the hill is a mere eight years your senior and you spend most hours psyching yourself up to make an appointment where he can tell you it needs to be a bit more roundish, but other wise not half bad, and please not to forget that in the end, it's totally your responsibility to decide when it's finished.
P.P.P.S.: You take until after the graduation ceremony to realize that this meant he trusted you and your work and wasn't a sign of him DGAFing and that you were getting on everybodies' nerves with your freaking out and shanghaiing them into reading your drafts again and again because "ZOMG, old dude DGAF!" and THAT THEY HAD BEEN TELLING YOU SO FOR WEEKS but it didn't register ...[/size]
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Well, it's better than continually getting stood up when you make an appointment, and then being blamed for not involving them enough... that's when I abandoned my PhD ambition.
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