Starting something you couldn't finishFinnbar says: I used to know a guy who tattooed LOVE across his left knuckles, but didn't tattoo HATE on the other knuckles because he was right-handed and realised he couldn't finish. Ever run out of skills or inspiration halfway through a job?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 13:32)
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Sounds like you do need a good strong cup of man the fuck up and stop blaming others.Why on earth are you doing a PhD that someone else chose for you? What made you get into academic research without an idea of what you wanted to do?
Very occasionally I'll take on a PhD student and suggest a topic to them rather than vice versa, but that's not very common. And only if they are quite clearly motivated by the field in general.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 11:39,
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I think you must be in a very different fieldI got no say in what I was studying and have never met a physics student who did.
I knew what I wanted to do, I just got something else enforced on me. Sadly it's very common to lure students in with the promise of something they enjoy and then force them to do something shit instead.
Seriously, if I devaite from the exact word of what my supervisor says, bye bye funding.
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