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November 11, 2010 New So far over it I might as well be in an airship.

I just typed a long-winded rant about how mind-fuckingly awful the last three months of a PhD are. I don’t mean, “Wow, this is a bit more work than I’d expected” bad. I mean random bursting into tears for no reason and having family members ask when (or if) your personality will get back to normal bad. I was going to ask for advice on how to restore my sanity. Then I realised that the only way that’s going to happen will be to finish this bloody thesis and putting the last horrible four years behind me.
I’ll just leave you with this piece of wisdom. I was speaking to a newly finished PhD candidate and said I wish I’d never bloody well started the PhD in the first place. She said she’d felt the same way just before she finished. Back then she was talking to the Dean who said that a well-kept secret in academia is that everyone feels that way towards the end of a PhD. Nobody wants to tell people when they start because some people might decide not to sign up. In my opinion, they’re the truly smart ones.
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September 5, 2010 Brave new world
My first blog post in the brave new world of WordPress. Even though I hadn’t blogged for several years I’m sad that Vox pulled the plug. It seems that most of my old crew migrated to WordPress so hopefully the community will re-establish itself. It’ll be interesting to see what the blogging culture is like here.
Here’s hoping I have more time for writing in the future to make use of my new blog! If you’re one of my old neighbours please leave a link to your new blog in the comments so I can catch up with you. 🙂
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