Montage
The greatest training montage ever captured on film is the 3-odd minute training scene in Rocky III. You can check it out here if you’ve never seen it. It’s awesome. If nothing else, add the music to your inspirational playlist....
Daily viva help for PhDs
The greatest training montage ever captured on film is the 3-odd minute training scene in Rocky III. You can check it out here if you’ve never seen it. It’s awesome. If nothing else, add the music to your inspirational playlist....
Graduated. (yay!!!) Final submission. (yay!!) Corrections approved. (yay!) Doing corrections. (well…) Given corrections. (probably) Viva over. (viva passed!) In the viva. (in flow, I hope) Ten minutes before the viva. (………) Day of the viva. (last minute nerves) Day before...
Writing a summary of some aspect of your thesis or research before the viva can do a lot of things to help you. It forces you to focus on something, to highlight the best parts or the most difficult sections...
Take your time as you finish your thesis. You’ll never make it perfect but you can be proud it’s as good as you can reasonably make it. Take your time as you get ready for your viva. Plan your prep...
If you feel ready for your viva then you probably are! So ask yourself two questions, just to be sure: Is there anything else you can do? Is there anything you might have forgotten to do? If you can honestly...
Viva prep is the work you do to help yourself feel ready. It’s a set of relatively simple tasks and activities like reading your thesis, rehearsing for the viva, making summaries. There are a lot of options for how you...
If viva prep feels like a grind and a bore then you need to change how you’re approaching it. It’s not that it should be FUN or that you should perform a series of fist pumps every time you read...
Hope for the best, plan for – well, let’s not say the worst! However, sometimes the best doesn’t happen and it helps to have a way to tackle problems while you’re getting ready for the viva. Maybe you read something that...
Plan your viva prep with the pressure you need to get it done. Time and circumstances are not completely within your control. Planning ahead allows you to think about the situation you need to work well. If you need space...
There are many tasks and activities that help someone get ready for their viva. Reading the thesis, rehearsing with a mock viva and so on – the practical stuff that helps. Alongside what you might need to do, consider how you get...