Categories: phd
Date: 21 October 2009 20:10:53
The other day on her blog Tractor Girl outlined a panel presentation she was part of to new postgrad students, exploring the following issues, and invited other postgrads to think about the same things:
- What have been some of the most stressful parts of the process, and how have you dealt with them?
- How do you strike a balance between work and the rest of your life?
- What has made you most excited in your studies?
- How do you see theological work relating to the wider world?
- How do you see your own work as part of your calling?
- How has your own faith been part of your work?
- What advice would you give beginning students? What might you do differently if you could start again?
I'm just putting this up here to remind myself - I really want to do this as I think it will really do me good to think about these things, and interesting as I am currently at a point of being somewhat unenthusiastic about my PhD*, so I wonder if that would change my answers. I will come back to this in the next few days, once I've finished the current chapter of doom. For now though I'm going to bed (what a lightweight, it's only just gone 9!).
* I love it and really believe in my research, I'm just finding the thesis quite a restricting and distinctly unsatisfying medium in which to communicate.