About 1.0
June 2007
Over the last 6 11 months I’ve been finishing a PhD in Media Studies which I began in September 2002. The blog was started to accompany me on the last few months, through until the VIVA (which took place on the 19th of December 2006). I was awarded a PhD subject to minor amendments, to be completed by March 2nd, 2007. The corrected version was approved and I’m currently waiting for my official letter, probably to arrive by mid/end June the latest.
The blog is called Life after PhD because its main purpose initially was to document the road to getting my life back – those who’ve undertaken PhD research will know what I mean 
. I intend to change my blog’s subject and title, quite possibly to Diary of a Teleworker (as that’s what I do for a living), once I’ve got my official letter and am therefore finally allowed to start using my shiny new title 
.
Until then, my life is still dominated to some extent by my PhD so I’ll keep Life after PhD for another month or so.
lenina is the anti-heroine in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
lenina 1.0 lasted from July 2006 – June 2007.
I want read the thesis !!! Please !!! May I ?
you found me
Sorry, can’t publish it until after my examination so it will be a few months (maybe two months). Have linked to your site from here (Blogroll).
He he – found your site and felt a twang…I’m in the final, final, final stages of my PhD too. I hope……….Good luck!
thanks and same to you
not long to go now…
Hey lenina, thought I’d mention if you didn’t know that you have 25 MB of storage on WP.com. I use a flickr or zooomr account to manage my photos and post them from there onto my blog.
Cheers.
get this – I came here via the imogen sex tape route (“my mate wanted to see it”), and it just happens that I’m in the final stages of a phd too. i quite like your blog, good luck with your writing up.
He Lenina. Stumbled across your blog when you linked to my site. Cheers, and thanks for coming to my show
Ciao!
Stephen
Yip I came here via the BB search, but only because I was checking my stats! I have ranked 3rd in google since it broke, so stop stealing my traffic! lol You do realise that google are smart and mentioning sex, etc all the time will loose you status in the long term?
Anyway i would like to check out the Phd too, so let me know when you leash it upon the interwebnet!
thanks graham! I had my Imogen idea ’stolen’ and reproduced by another blogger too, and he got loads of traffic
. Good! I’m all for that. With regard to google punishing people mentioning sex too much – I don’t particularly mind. As I’ve said elsewhere, for me it’s all about experimenting with web traffic and web 2.0 and I don’t need, want or crave money, online status, recognition or search engine rankings. Interesting when it happens though! also the people who come here via the Imogen sex tape route are unlikely to stay anyhow, as my blog really isn’t much about sex so the great majority will never return!
Yo!
I enjoy your blog, so I linked it to me blogroll thingey =)
I’m a student who is currently wrestling with his Bachelor degree in Intermedia Studies and Visual Culture, i happen to have a big dream of becoming a phD. myself sometime so this blog of yours is fun to read for someone who hasn’t the slightest Idea as to what it really means to be a PhD student =)
Keep up the good spirit !
Chris
Hi Chris – thanks for your comment
I’d recommend to only to a PhD if you’re seriously thinking of an academic career. I’m currently finding out that within the (media) industry, it might be a disadvantage to have one. I had an interview yesterday and they think I’m overqualified
In terms of career, a PhD is a prerequisite if you want to become a lecturer. For everything else though, it’s probably not a good idea – waste of 4 years and at the end of it you have your title but that’s about it… anyway, good luch with your Bachelor
good luck with the final parts of the course, I’ve got my LLM dissertation due on the 29/09 so less than a month now! better get started! hope it goes well.
i have assisted many people in dropping out of phd programs
care to exchange blogrolls?
me blog is about philosophy islam and literature among other things
you assisted them in dropping out?
I’ll have a look at your blog after my submission. currently i’m so busy I only just manage to write my daily post on my blog
good luck with ur submission and THE life after. i am just a random guy who read ur blog.
send u the orkut invite
tx
hi,
nice content here, though i am scared of academics and its practiotioners!! LOL
routed (tempted) thru ur featured post on wordpress homepage
will drop IN again. may be another video link!! btw the link is not working. but somehow managed to get hold of ONE.
There is life after PhD… at least I hope so. I feel your setiments precicely. I’m finishing my PhD in Chemistry and feellike it’ll never end. I got an extention of three weeks and although I need it my stomache sank at the though tof three more weeks of slavery to writing. i don’t even want the PhD so much anymore. all I want is my life back.
good luck with yours. Life will be fun and exciting again.
by the way, I just happend across you blog on a google search, on a toally unrealated thing, and felt the need to offer my support.
Again, Good luck
ty Sarah! I have submitted now and will have to start preparing for the VIVA some time next week… No rest for the wicked eh
Good luck to you too!
I thought it was a PhD about the after-life.
Do you mind if i add you to my blogroll?
sure, go ahead
what’s your blog anyway?
Great!
My blog can be found at http://www.whotookmyname.com, i discovered you blog via a blog you left a comment on.