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 :D .

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.

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24 Responses to “About 1.0”

  1. Systaime, on August 10th, 2006 at 10:02 am Said:

    I want read the thesis !!! Please !!! May I ?

  2. lenina, on August 10th, 2006 at 10:17 am Said:

    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).

  3. Luciano, on August 12th, 2006 at 9:12 am Said:

    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!

  4. lenina, on August 13th, 2006 at 11:56 am Said:

    thanks and same to you :D

    not long to go now…

  5. range, on August 13th, 2006 at 9:57 pm Said:

    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.

  6. JR Capablanca, on August 17th, 2006 at 11:13 pm Said:

    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.

  7. Stephen Grant, on August 20th, 2006 at 2:53 am Said:

    He Lenina. Stumbled across your blog when you linked to my site. Cheers, and thanks for coming to my show :)

    Ciao!

    Stephen

  8. graham, on August 29th, 2006 at 9:27 am Said:

    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!

  9. lenina, on August 29th, 2006 at 10:23 am Said:

    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!

  10. danyaelx, on August 31st, 2006 at 3:29 am Said:

    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

  11. lenina, on August 31st, 2006 at 11:22 am Said:

    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 :)

  12. al, on September 2nd, 2006 at 11:52 am Said:

    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.

  13. eteraz, on September 4th, 2006 at 9:27 am Said:

    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

  14. lenina, on September 5th, 2006 at 10:08 am Said:

    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 :(

  15. venky, on September 14th, 2006 at 7:46 pm Said:

    good luck with ur submission and THE life after. i am just a random guy who read ur blog.

  16. lillyfox, on September 22nd, 2006 at 11:26 pm Said:

    send u the orkut invite
    tx

  17. surfryder, on September 26th, 2006 at 5:24 pm Said:

    hi,
    routed (tempted) thru ur featured post on wordpress homepage :) nice content here, though i am scared of academics and its practiotioners!! LOL

    will drop IN again. may be another video link!! btw the link is not working. but somehow managed to get hold of ONE.

  18. Sarah Glennie, on October 5th, 2006 at 2:36 pm Said:

    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.

  19. Sarah Glennie, on October 5th, 2006 at 2:37 pm Said:

    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

  20. lenina, on October 6th, 2006 at 8:51 am Said:

    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!

  21. automatthias, on October 21st, 2006 at 3:32 pm Said:

    I thought it was a PhD about the after-life.

  22. paul, on March 21st, 2007 at 7:18 pm Said:

    Do you mind if i add you to my blogroll?

  23. lenina, on March 21st, 2007 at 7:26 pm Said:

    sure, go ahead :)

    what’s your blog anyway?

  24. paul, on March 21st, 2007 at 7:49 pm Said:

    Great!

    My blog can be found at http://www.whotookmyname.com, i discovered you blog via a blog you left a comment on.

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