PhD Category

What a difference a year makes….

In: General, PhD

So, in the absence of students, life continues as normal for the various research teams down here in the Queens buildings. We wake, march to University and sit in our little boxes reading, theorising and tearing our hair out until 5 o’clock when we march back, only to be repeated the next day. I hate [...]

Mental Mental

In: PhD

Today I travelled on 2 planes, 3 buses and 1 car (thats a full house and extra) to make the 800 mile round trip to Edinburgh for part of a BioDiveristyWorld conference. I’m quite surprised I managed to organise and sort out everything since Monday and it go according to plan.
I was actually really overwhelmed [...]