How to do PhD, Step by Step Advice from Start to End (This is the article I wrote for http://blog.soton.ac.uk/studentblogs/author/mag208r/ in 2010. Hopefully, It will help new PhD students in UK system) Permanent Head Damage (PHD) is shining at full boom I have become short sighted, lost my memory, lost some hair with white blob at root (so I have to change my hair style), grown fatter my inchoate SIX packs have been replaced by one big integrated pack, I have less time for my friends and family (I apologise, but one day you will be proud of me..;p) Well this is the abstract of what I am doing nowadays. This is my final year, and now I am worried a bit about the work and the final viva. I asked my supervisor about the work and he said it is fine, you will not have any problem; however, the anxiety is natural. I have made a couple of contributions (though none of them qualify for the Nobel Prize), published a couple of conference papers, and hav...
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