Welcome, Hi!
You know I'm writing this instead of working on something important, so I won't try and excuse myself.
I suppose I had better catch you up on my first 2 months in purgatory, I started in October 2024, at a U.K. institution - so far I have had a paper published, lodged a complaint, cried and submitted my ethics for another study. So, fairly typical.
(I will explain those events in more detail over the coming posts - it's not like I have anything else to do 👀)
So, what can I tell you? I'm 27, currently working in the public sector with my local authority to support my studies, and am trying to juggle that with being a broke student, having a partner and trying to make my academic impact.
From many of the PhD accounts on places like instagram or Twitter (yes, I still call it that). These accounts try to romanticize a research degree, they're often full time students who can devote all day every day to their studies - don't get me wrong I'm pleased for them, if not slightly envious but I want to demonstrate what it is like for a working class student who wants to do well but has to work, who has a long distance partner, who sometimes has to just work overtime for 2 weeks just to make ends meet. It's not wrong either way, "it is what it is" and some of us have more baggage than others.
This is a no judgement zone btw, we all are on a journey, we are all doing our thing. 'Stand on the shoulders of giants' is the motto and for me that means, pulling each other up onto the shoulders.
