I have conquered the reading list. I have read all the relevant parts of all the books and articles I was told to read in order to succeed at this godforsaken PhD. Unfortunately, that means I have to move on to the editing and writing, which I’m emphatically NOT looking forward to.

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Alas, things are not a lot better now.

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So, you may have guessed from the radio silence on my blog over the past couple of weeks or so that my viva did NOT go as planned.

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For the past week and a half, I’ve been meticulously going over all my knowledge about my thesis in order to be ready for anything my examiners throw at me.

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So, after 10 weeks and 5 days of unemployment, I finally got a job offer.

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One thing people assume about the unemployed is that every day is the same to them. Weekday, weekend, it makes no difference.  After ten weeks, I can assure you, that’s not the case.

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The humanities get a bad rap.

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Long-term readers will be aware that I am not good at summer.

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Today, I will mostly be ranting about the use of graduate earnings to evaluate how good a course/university is.

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It seems that people have a lot of pre-existing ideas about what someone with a PhD is, does, and wants, when we’re actually a pretty diverse lot.

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