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This is a joke
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21-04-2009 5:18pm#1
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I was at home today waiting anxiously for my results of whether IRCSET would fund my PhD and guess what....
Nothing!
Not a reply, not an email, nothing at all!
Two phone calls, "wait till 5 o'clock", and nothing!
Were they in today at all or what? This is ridiculous, the amount of funding this crowd gets and, the amount of hoops they make you jump through, the amount of time they take to review an application and they can't even stick to their own deadline.
It's fúcking ridiculous so it is, a joke, they're a joke, and they're taking the piss out of applicants with their inefficiency!
Has anyone else had any luck with this shower at all today?
WOW:eek: Is your Phd anything to do with anger management?
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friendface wrote: »I want my results this evening. I'm gonna spend the next half hour on ircset.ie constantly pressing F5.....:D
..............I have no life
:P
ah yes, that'll speed up the site.0 -
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Deleted User wrote: »It's up.
GET IN THERE!
Good luck to the rest of you.....
Can I ask just out of interest what the subject of your Phd is? I'm only interested cause I'm a final year IT student (only 3 weeks left woo hoo!) and I can see myself doing a Phd down the line a bit.
PS congrats on securing funding0 -
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Deleted User wrote: »Sure. It's in Astrophysics, entitled:
"The Transport of Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium"
OK. I've no idea what a heliosphere or an interstellar medium is (local or otherwise) but it sure sounds impressive!
I'd recommend the energetic particles use public transport or maybe cycle. Hope that helps:)
Good luck with it....0 -
Deleted User wrote: »Sure. It's in Astrophysics, entitled:
"The Transport of Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium"
Congrats on finishing your degree!
Well if this is the sort of stuff I was up against, it's no surprise I didn't get funding
lol.
Heliosphere
Interstellar Medium
My head hurts!
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friendface wrote: »Well if this is the sort of stuff I was up against, it's no surprise I didn't get funding lol.
Heliosphere Interstellar Medium
My head hurts!
You know you have to post your title now FF...0 -
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friendface wrote: »Ok, just let me get my project proposal out of the bin :pac:
"Built environment energy modelling, simulation and control"
Aww I'm disappointed. You use big words too There go my dreams of doing a Phd.....or maybe I'll just buy a thesaurus
Anyway, sorry to hear you didn't get funding. Hope you're not in the dole queue like me 0 -
Aww I'm disappointed. You use big words too There go my dreams of doing a Phd.....or maybe I'll just buy a thesaurus
Anyway, sorry to hear you didn't get funding. Hope you're not in the dole queue like me
Well let's just say there's doors being shut everywhere I go. In the last 3 days I got 3 rejection letters from engineering companies. It's a bit disheartening when you don't even get the slightest bit of interest from a company or even an interview.
My aim is to do a Masters (research) and possibly a PhD if all goes well, but I need funding as I can't come up with the sort of money required otherwise. Between fees and living expenses, I estimate it would cost approx €20k per yr to fund a PhD myself. If I finish in 3 years, I would be left €60k in debt without even having any secure job prospects to look forward to.
I haven't got terrible results either, have a decent CV and about 14months relevant work experience and the fact that I'm not even getting to an interview stage with anyone worries me. And I'm not the only one. I don't know a single person in my class who has secured placement for after graduation (well maybe 1 person out of about 110). I don't know how the government is going to cope when thousands of students graduate in a months time or so and many will have to sign on the dole...0 -
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Deleted User wrote: »Sure. It's in Astrophysics, entitled:
"The Transport of Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium"
Show off!
Ah no, that's excellent you got funding congratulations!
Congratulations to everyone who got funding as well, we'll have a session organised for the end of the week!
Commiserations to all those who didn't get funding (myself included), we'll have a session organised for the end of the week to drown our sorrows!;)
It's the way things have gone unfortunately folks, 2 years ago any kind of half-way interesting project would have got funding but because of the economy, cronyism (not naming names of any particular bodies... but you know who) getting funding is going to be pretty tough and as Red Alert said in one of the other threads you would nearly have to say that this project will win a Nobel Prize, I can see from Aristotle's thesis title that this is evident, really it sounds feckin cool, can you imagine when you're at home in the local with the aul fellas and fools you went to school with who dropped out:
Aul fella; "How's she cuttin Aristotle? What are you up to these days?"
Deleted User; "Oh I'm still in college, workin hard!"
Aul fella; "What are ya studyin, last I heard it was a yoke of some sort?"
Deleted User; "The Transport of Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium"
Aul fella; "Oh so it's kinda like how a car works is it?"
That's pretty cool!:D
Seriously though, fair play to everyone who did or didn't get in, it's the fact that you tried and didn't do the usual "ah I'd like to 'find myself' now" business. Again, you could've been top of your class but if you don't have a Masters of some sort or research experience, it's just really difficult.
A session should be organised to celebrate this, so if anyone's in ucd, this friday, last day of term, monster of a session before the exams, PM for a piss up!:D0
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