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[cheekbones3]

Right then folks. I'm severely creatively stifled. I want to go into research, or a job that has similar content and feel, and because my first degree is crap, I'm scuppered at almost all turns, even though I have an MSc. I fell into the trap of going straight from school to uni, and only in the last few years have I actually been in the proper frame of mind for study.

Time for your ideas: Do you reckon it would be worth me getting a decent BSc from scratch, to then get me onto a funded PhD in two or three years? I reckon I could get an honours degree in quick time, especially if I found a course that let me defer first year, or at least do it in my own time. Otherwise, I could just get a job (eventually) and be stuck doing stuff that isn't bad, but isn't really what I want to do. Either way, I think I'll be doing crappy work for the next year at least to pay for all these silly ideas...your thoughts are welcome anyway.

In other news, I reckon the new Kate Bush single is pretty good, now I've heard it a few times.

Also, I'll be down south until Saturday or maybe Sunday (Saturday if I can be arsed getting back to listen to the North Queensland v Tigers NRL grand final via the web on Sunday morning), so I'll see you all whenever.

Furthermore, I'm planning to go to see Scotland v Ireland in the RL Nations Cup on the 23rd of October with bunnyphone if anyone else fancies joining us.

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[lwilson.livejournal.com]

From what little I know, I reckon it's not worth doing another BSc unless it's in a significantly differently different field; if there's too much overlap, people might not take it seriously. I did an MSc to try and atone for my BSc, and that kind of worked for two reasons: i) Because I did an industrial project that was not directly relevant, but not too far removed(ii) I'm doing applied optics where most people go straight into industry (it pays better).

From talking to the academics here, I think that most people looking for PhD students would rather have someone who's enthusiastic, and with experience in practical stuff (either lab experience, orprogramming experience, or both) but little background. Fact is that everyone who starts a PhD (especially the folks who let it be widely known that they got some oxbridge double first) quickly learns that they really don't know anything at all. Especially people with three year BSc degrees.

What do you actually want to do? There's a christmas entry for PhD students most places. I can keep my ear to the ground around here to see if there's anything coming up.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Well I got an ordinary first degree in physics, the a masters in stats, and I'm looking to do some sort of course in the earth sciences, possibly from a more numerical angle, or something involving modelling, as I did that in my dissertation.

I think I find the hardest thing is getting across my enthusiasm, as well as funding problems due to my first degree. The help is much appreciated though! I did e-mail a couple of people about courses at Edinburgh, but they appeared to have offers pending already.