Tag: student
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Year Four
My early efforts at blog writing were somewhat sporadic, but I did mark some key moments during my PhD, in the posts Year Two and Year Three. In the former, I reflected on the major review that every Portsmouth PhD student must pass in order to progress to their second year. In the latter, I…
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Keeping a lab diary as a theorist
Making a daily log of my thoughts and things I tried saved the final year of my PhD.
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How asking a question on Stack Exchange kick started my career in research
I did my undergraduate degree at Aberystwyth University in Wales. I took the astrophysics course, which ran in parallel to the plain physics degree for the first two years, covering all the basics such as mathematical methods, classical mechanics, waves, optics, thermodynamics and so on. In the third year the astrophysics became the main focus,…
Natalie B. Hogg 