I've been fed up since about July 2008
So some time before that, I guess.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:08, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

*sad face*

( girlinthehole, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:09, Reply)

this thread is getting depressing fast

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:12, Reply)

I blame Cave Duck.

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:14, Reply)

And you can't even remember
What happened in July 2008?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:12, Reply)

Oh, I know exactly what happened
It was around that time that I realised my PhD was depressing and shit.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:13, Reply)

Sorry about that
But you'll be happy one day, when it's finished and you get an awsome job.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:23, Reply)

why so sad?

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:13, Reply)

See above
I'm fairly sure that the only thing that stopped me quitting was that the recession began a little while after that summer and so there were no jobs available. Not exactly a great source of motivation when you've got five months left to finish.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:19, Reply)

5 months isn't that long though
and at the end of it you'll be Dr Crow, that alone is worth it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:23, Reply)

I didn't quit my job for the same reason
after a year and a half of almost killing myself. Now I'm happy I didn't, as they've found me this other job which I love, and I can probably move to London to work with them.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:24, Reply)

Oddly enough, my brother's going through a rough patch in his PhD at the moment too. Maybe it's the time of year or something.

He's done most of the interesting stuff (his is in proper science with labs, white coats and liquid nitrogen) and now just needs to get it written up, but he's never really had any training in the art of scientific writing (as it were).

So he's sat with not too long to go, a massive pile of papers all of which he thinks he's got to refer to, and a considerable helping of The Fear that he doesn't know anywhere near enough, and hasn't made enough progress. All this despite good experimental work and a published paper or two.

Perversely, that's pretty much exactly where you need to be though. It's the folks who reckon they know the lot and think that their PhD is going to change the world that are in for a terrible shock ...
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:33, Reply)

haha 'proper science', did you see that Crow, he's totally burning you.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:35, Reply)

I was under the impression that Crow's involves proper lab stuff too. Physics or something?
... as opposed to mine which was ostensibly computery but ended up as slightly glorified social science, sort of. Not wishing to offend anyone, like ...
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:40, Reply)

I think his wrists are too limp to handle big bottles of liquid nitrogen

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Liquid nitrogen
is awesome stuff. I've used it for all sorts of extra-curricular purposes in the past.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 11:02, Reply)

A mate knew a student who used it for a party piece
involving taking it into his throat and doing an enormous burp. One night it went wrong and he swallowed it. Hospitalarity ensued.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 11:06, Reply)

On Clarkson's shortlived show 'Clarkson'
he once made ice cream with liquid nitrogen, it was pretty impressive.

I quite enjoyed that show, he also created a mousetrap that sets fire to the mouse and he microwaved a melon.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 11:08, Reply)