These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

Out of Pod Experience

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
 

Submitting my PhD Thesis tomorrow
Author
Previous Topic Next Topic
Tombomb13
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-03-31 19:58:15 UTC
So tomorrow I'm submitting my PhD thesis!. I've worked on it for four and a half years. It's not as good as it could be, but it's going to be submitted all the same! I know I have the VIVA to come, but I do feel aside from the preparations of my VIVA defense, that I'm going to be wondering what to do with myself. Some EVE of course.

For anyone that's an academic, it's a mix of geography, computer science, and psychology. I study in the University of St Andrews, Scotland, previously NUI Maynooth, Ireland.

Has anyone else here been crazy enough to take on a doctorate?!
Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
#2 - 2014-03-31 20:17:28 UTC
Congratz! I still remember working on mine with pride and having it labeled with the honorary "Mention: For Publishing" which entails it was deemed worthy of joining a special set of other research works at my Alma Mater.

Best damn day of my life Big smile

Care to link it later? I would happily read it if it has some "Psychology" themes in that one.

Regarding your question yes, please consider, if you can afford it, getting better academic studies. Most people I know usually take them after they have 5 to 10 years of solid work, field practice and money though.

Rarely have I seen anyone in my country take the road to specialized studies straight away after college (unless they happen to have a scholarship or can afford them right away)

As a side note, be aware some specializations are in the long tem more profitable for your career (hence why some people decide on them after they have jobs or plan to go into specific fields) than others.

Unless you wanna go for it for pure Academic/Scholarly pride and take whole new careers instead of "specs", but I have only seen that in Twice/Thri "Borlados" , people that can wear more than 2 tassels on their Academic Caps during official ceremonies in Academy Events. To be fair I have only seen one person ever wear 3 Tassels and as far as I know this might not hold true to other Ambit of Learning.

Anyway gratz for you friend!

o7

Cheers!

Inner Sayings of BrujoLoco: http://eve-files.com/sig/brujoloco
Tombomb13
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#3 - 2014-04-01 23:34:41 UTC
Thank you very much for taking the time to comment!. I often find these things are much less understood by anyone not "in" the domain.

You're welcome to read it alright, it's not a good as it could have been which I regret, but given the circumstances I wrote it under (60 days for most of the thesis) I am relived that it's now submitted. I know there will be corrections to come following the VIVA, I just hope they don't see me as a hopeless case for a PhD :-).

The topic is called: An Evaluation of Visualisations of Geographically Weighted Regression, with Perceptual Scalability. I covered evaluating different maps, to assessing how data scale affects perception and the ability to perceive the data - this is where I get the term perceptual scalability.

I'm going to start learning how to code because it's a hole I need to fill in my skill set. If I have that them I become a lot more self sufficient.
I think I'll see what types of jobs are out there including internships, because they could help me get my foot in the door to that career. If you know of any jobs going in Ireland let me know! :-)
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#4 - 2014-04-02 00:31:41 UTC
I would love to go for a phd in geology.
Ragnar Severasse
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-04-02 00:34:42 UTC
Tombomb13 wrote:
Thank you very much for taking the time to comment!. I often find these things are much less understood by anyone not "in" the domain.

You're welcome to read it alright, it's not a good as it could have been which I regret, but given the circumstances I wrote it under (60 days for most of the thesis) I am relived that it's now submitted. I know there will be corrections to come following the VIVA, I just hope they don't see me as a hopeless case for a PhD :-).

The topic is called: An Evaluation of Visualisations of Geographically Weighted Regression, with Perceptual Scalability. I covered evaluating different maps, to assessing how data scale affects perception and the ability to perceive the data - this is where I get the term perceptual scalability.

I'm going to start learning how to code because it's a hole I need to fill in my skill set. If I have that them I become a lot more self sufficient.
I think I'll see what types of jobs are out there including internships, because they could help me get my foot in the door to that career. If you know of any jobs going in Ireland let me know! :-)


If you are totally new to computer programming, I would recommend learning Processing as a good starting point.
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#6 - 2014-04-02 02:08:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Slade Trillgon
Congratulations on this accomplishment. I know what you went through even though I have not directly gone through it.

If I was to further my education I would actually go for another masters in a related/associated field to broaden my scope of practice.

Enjoy your incoming free time Blink

EDIT: To clarify, I work in health and wellness. Considering the diversity of the human body, broadening my scope of practice makes me more flexible with who I can work with. Well, to be honest I am already very flexible with who I can work with, but it would make me feel more competent considering my current clientel is stroke, traumatic brain injury, cancer patients.... who I am not techniocally qualified to work with. However, I am qualified to work with, quasi-internationally, up to and including all professional sports in the streangth & conditioning field or Injury prevention & rehabilitation field.
Karl Staufenberg
Executor Industries
#7 - 2014-04-02 09:30:54 UTC
Congrats. I'm still working on my undergrad. It's kinda tough right now though- I have to balance it with being active duty military.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#8 - 2014-04-02 16:42:13 UTC
Congratulations! Some great things about finally finishing a degree:
-You go to a job, and when you're done for the day, you're done. You can watch a DVD, play a game, whatever, without feeling guilty about that chapter you're not reading or that paper you're not working on.
-First the first time in X years, you have time for recreational reading. Imagine-- you can choose any book you want and read it!
-Dollars, pounds, or whatever you local currency is. Smile
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#9 - 2014-04-02 21:16:36 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:

-First the first time in X years, you have time for recreational reading. Imagine-- you can choose any book you want and read it! Smile


It took about a year and a half to get over all the reading i did in grad school to get the urge to pick up a book recreationally. after the first a flood gate opened and I read a load of books over the next 3 years. I bounced back and fourth between 1 fiction and multiple non-fiction books at a time. It was great!
Tollen Gallen
Glory of Reprisal Enterprise
#10 - 2014-04-03 19:47:01 UTC
Gratz

Weesh id dun moare owf that there skoolin.

Zimmy Zeta - I f*cking love martinis. the original ones, with gin, not that vodka martini crap. Your old Friends can use me for 7 days, free!!!