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Blog post: Disillusioned Physicist: The thesis that never was - Advice to postgraduates

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Or more to the point, avoiding having a thesis that never was.

 

I'm now a fourth year PhD student, doing physics, coming to the end of my time, clearly using my time well writing a blog post.  During my time leading up to starting and in the first few years many people gave me many bits of advice.  Some as a joke, some serious.

 

I have done the same to those who have followed in my footsteps and propose to discuss the most useful below.   I'm a physicist, and this is written from my perspective, but I would hope that they can be stretched out wider into the other sciences and perhaps beyond...

 

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