9:17 1. Students who make excuses 13:02 2. Blame 15:08 3. Missing deadlines 19:27 4. Emotional volatility and carelessness 23:20 5. Assuming that your supervisor can solve all your personal, professional and intellectual problems 26:25 6. Thinking that PhD is a continuation of an undergraduate degree which is a continuation of school 28:13 7. Incapacity to self-manage 29:29 8. Lack of reading and research 31:25 9. Carelessness in writing 35:40 10. Not taking risks or asking questions
I'm in my second year of my PhD and these videos are so helpful. They've really helped me get a grasp of what I need to work on and how to work things out to get better.
Thank you, Tara. I can see where I have contributed to some of the problems that I've encountered during the past 3 1/2 years and I hope to avoid those mistakes from now on. I'm about to watch Vlog 236 and take notes! I REALLY appreciate your clear and honest vlogs. thank you Nicola
Tara, I'm in my first semester of my PhD program in history in the US... But I completed and defended my MA at the same university. So my coursework should only take two more semesters including required classes. I'll begin portfolio within the year and am so grateful for your videos cause I feel that these reminders/points brought up are so relevant...
Hi Tara, I've love your videos! I have realised I might be ticking off some of those points you mentioned today. I'm 6 months in, and I really want to work on being more organized and plan smarter. Any tips on planning smarter? Thanks!
At the end of my PhD project now, VIVA in January *crossed fingers*, I would say that one of the risks (which led to the problems I had) was wondering outside of the realm of interest of the academic.
Thank you Tara for finding the pillars and identifying the true character of us as PhD students not progressing satisfactorily.... This, as always, was extremely helpful.
Hi thank you for this I am currently starting my second year and have produced various reports etc. In my first few the comments were vast however recently the comments have reduced as I have fixed my stupid errors etc. One comment that that continues is issues with structure and setting out an argument or point (I am a science student) Do you have any advice on that aspect on writing specifically?
Alas, even the terms "excuses" and "blame" have such negative connotations that they're not really free of blame themselves. You'll want someone more diplomatic I suppose, but language like "getting stuck rehashing difficulties and obstacles" might get the point across. Not that I would know, but it sounds to me like both are symptoms of #6: framing a phd as an extension of schooling. If you perceive your phd as a process within your career which is vaguely happening to you, then ultimately your responsibility is quite limited, and every challenge is perfectly noteworthy as an interruption of that process. If you instead perceive your phd as a major life goal which you are pursuing on your own initiative... there's bound to be a certain degree of bemoaning, but I would hazard a guess that it's going to take a more grievous problem for those complaints to get in the way of productivity. Of course having said that, I can't help thinking that "anxiety issues" would feed into the majority of these bullet points, so it's not hard to imagine that I'm horribly biased.
9:17 1. Students who make excuses
13:02 2. Blame
15:08 3. Missing deadlines
19:27 4. Emotional volatility and carelessness
23:20 5. Assuming that your supervisor can solve all your personal, professional and intellectual problems
26:25 6. Thinking that PhD is a continuation of an undergraduate degree which is a continuation of school
28:13 7. Incapacity to self-manage
29:29 8. Lack of reading and research
31:25 9. Carelessness in writing
35:40 10. Not taking risks or asking questions
I'm in my second year of my PhD and these videos are so helpful. They've really helped me get a grasp of what I need to work on and how to work things out to get better.
Thank you, Tara. I can see where I have contributed to some of the problems that I've encountered during the past 3 1/2 years and I hope to avoid those mistakes from now on. I'm about to watch Vlog 236 and take notes! I REALLY appreciate your clear and honest vlogs. thank you Nicola
I’m starting my PhD in two weeks and your videos are extremely helpful! Thank you for what you’re doing
Tara, I'm in my first semester of my PhD program in history in the US... But I completed and defended my MA at the same university. So my coursework should only take two more semesters including required classes. I'll begin portfolio within the year and am so grateful for your videos cause I feel that these reminders/points brought up are so relevant...
I truly love your videos!! Very helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to prepare this!😊
Hi Tara, I've love your videos! I have realised I might be ticking off some of those points you mentioned today. I'm 6 months in, and I really want to work on being more organized and plan smarter. Any tips on planning smarter? Thanks!
At the end of my PhD project now, VIVA in January *crossed fingers*, I would say that one of the risks (which led to the problems I had) was wondering outside of the realm of interest of the academic.
Thank you Tara for finding the pillars and identifying the true character of us as PhD students not progressing satisfactorily.... This, as always, was extremely helpful.
I'm in my second year of PhD which is more challenging to make the best of my time. Happy to watch this video and try to avoid these points.
Can you please do a video on doing a PHD within a subject that is sensitive such historic child abuse etc.
Thank you so much for your vlogs .Very informative.
The hyperactive
Hi thank you for this I am currently starting my second year and have produced various reports etc. In my first few the comments were vast however recently the comments have reduced as I have fixed my stupid errors etc. One comment that that continues is issues with structure and setting out an argument or point (I am a science student) Do you have any advice on that aspect on writing specifically?
The Lab could be replaced by the shared PhD workspace, increasingly getting crammed as well!
Me! I am only now doing a M Res but i have two supervisors because I am a lot of work)))
I'm in undergrad and bingeing your videos
Alas, even the terms "excuses" and "blame" have such negative connotations that they're not really free of blame themselves. You'll want someone more diplomatic I suppose, but language like "getting stuck rehashing difficulties and obstacles" might get the point across.
Not that I would know, but it sounds to me like both are symptoms of #6: framing a phd as an extension of schooling. If you perceive your phd as a process within your career which is vaguely happening to you, then ultimately your responsibility is quite limited, and every challenge is perfectly noteworthy as an interruption of that process. If you instead perceive your phd as a major life goal which you are pursuing on your own initiative... there's bound to be a certain degree of bemoaning, but I would hazard a guess that it's going to take a more grievous problem for those complaints to get in the way of productivity.
Of course having said that, I can't help thinking that "anxiety issues" would feed into the majority of these bullet points, so it's not hard to imagine that I'm horribly biased.
Yes, the number of such silly persons, those who hate to be asked questions and also hate to answer the asked questions, is huge.
Back to the office again:)
It is unbelievable that students behave like this.
Why do you even try so hard getting everyone through? Puh.