My First Week as a PhD Student

Hello, everyone. This is my first video on this new channel. My name is Cinzia and I just started my PhD in Classics. In this video, I share my thoughts of my first week as a PhD student and discuss what I'll be covering on this channel.
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[@OlwenMoon]

I’m so happy for you! I’ve been following you for years and seeing you living your dream is very exiting. I wish you all the best! :)

[@SelfHelpShelf]

Thank you so much!!

[@jessicabee9299]

I am an adult student who works full time and doing a part time bachelor of psychological sciences in australia. One of the things i thought would work for me was a strict timetable, what actually works is having a flexible timetable where i use sticknotes to move around the set number if hours i want to complete each week. I look forward to watching your progress and how things change as you go. Congrats and good luck 💗

[@SelfHelpShelf]

I'm so glad you've found a timetable system that's best for you :D best of luck with the rest of you degree, and thank you x

[@ongjune8328]

I loved the modernism vs post-modernism video, it was very enlightening even for someone who has zero background in literature. So excited for the future of this channel!

[@annmcdonald2442]

I spotted The Plumb Trilogy by Maurice Gee on the shelf behind you! A great New Zealand writer.

[@sethfrederiksen]

A belated congradulations on getting into your Ph.D. program. I look forward to hearing what hidden gems you'll find along your journey.

[@AylenL]

I am so happy that you finally get to do a PhD! And selfishly happy that you set up a second channel to document it all :D You go girl!

[@patriciad6995]

I found this video after asking you on another video about your journey/experience as a distance learner and I appreciate this so much! I’m actually getting my MSc in Edinburgh too - specifically wanted an MSc in History not just because I’ve always wanted to but also because of the possibility of continuing further into a PhD. I don’t know many others who have a similar experience as I do being a distance learner so I truly, truly appreciate this video!! All the best to you on your PhD journey!

[@Martina_E]

Congrats again! I'm from the U.S. I like that Ph.D. style. I wish we had that.

[@suzannamangovski4198]

Congratulations!! You were meant to be an academic. You can feel your excitement.

[@SelfHelpShelf]

That's so kind of you to say, thank you, Suzanna

[@vools8621]

I just subscribed. I discovered this channel through your other channel. I'm really looking forward to following your new journey. I'm currently studying in order to establish a career as a library technician. Although it's totally different to what you're studying, I know what it's like to study something you're really passionate about - so, I'm thrilled for you! You mentioned studying Ancient Greek. Not that this matters, but I'd thought I'll mention that I'm Greek-Australian, although I haven't studied Ancient Greek. You also pointed out that you're thinking of uploading various types of videos. I'm interested in every single one of them. Bring it on!🌼

[@MCracknell]

This is awesome! Really wishing you all the best!

[@francescapearl1276]

Congratulations! So happy for you!

[@juliathomaz1347]

I'd love to know your take on Boris Johnson's use of classics.. last week in the UN he went from Kermit the Frog to ancient Greek in a heartbeat, which seems a good way to be approachable but also please the Oxbridge crowd...

[@winterburden]

This is so exciting, very happy to be following your new channel! 🙆‍♀️

[@gracedchip6498]

Can I just say, I LOVE your thesis topic. It sounds amazing.

[@raijaynehearse]

So excited for this channel. I am starting my PhD next week, exciting times! 🖤

[@franciscajavierafernandeza8709]

All the best for these first weeks!!

[@Missfrankiecat]

Warmest wishes for your Phd journey. I am looking forward to this channel content.

[@itsanastasiaaaa]

Oh what this was such a good explanation - so excited for you and now weirdly I want to pursue a PhD..??!??

[@freya7084]

So glad to be here with you since day one

[@mchlle94]

I would love a video about starting your phds after 10 years, including applying, funding etc.

[@meriemaitbbih431]

So excited for this channel yey ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@SelfHelpShelf]

Thank you, Meriem x

[@mahammatbaba8666]

I’m a fan of your first channel, and I am excited to see how you grow this one.

[@lesliemoiseauthor]

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 I am so happy for you.

[@SelfHelpShelf]

Thank you so much, Leslie!!

[@missytyrrell1]

I'm really looking forward to hearing your bookish thoughts. 😊

[@gnova7]

first week whoot whoot!!!

[@SelfHelpShelf]

😊

[@juliam2222]

So exciting! Looking forward to seeing your journey on here!

[@SelfHelpShelf]

Thank you, Julia!

[@sophieadventures3157]

So excited for this channel!! Huge good luck and enjoy it ❤️

[@SelfHelpShelf]

Thank you so much, Sophie!!

[@TheSarahJodi]

This is so exciting! So happy for you Cinzia 💓

[@SelfHelpShelf]

Thank you so much!

[@janicegagnon2294]

So looking forward to seeing you progress in this journey and where it takes you.

[@SelfHelpShelf]

Thank you, Janice (:

[@lucindachambers3855]

Exciting!!! Congrats on your first week

[@SelfHelpShelf]

Thank you 😊

[@garrettcarroll5808]

Excited for you! Congrats on starting a PhD :D

[@SelfHelpShelf]

Thank you, Garrett!

[@marcustulliuscicero3987]

I am happy to have found your channel. It seems that we are on a very similar path. I will be staring a PhD in Classics and Ancient History in September after a four year break from academia. My focus will be on Latin literature as well. I am quite excited but also wonder what it will be like to get back into being a student. I hope I still have what it takes to succeed. Your advice will definitely be useful!

[@jessicamaymontana594]

Congrats! I'd love to hear about the funding side. I'd love to do a PHD in Business/Economics but would have to do it part time distance like yourself so I can continue working full time (gotta pay the bills!). So it would be so interesting to hear that side of it!

[@peerreviewed]

Same! I'm currently applying for a PhD in Accounting History and there are absolutely no paid PhD for that, so I'll have to do it part time as well.

[@jessicamaymontana594]

@@peerreviewed that's awesome! Good luck! That sounds really interesting! (I qualified as an accountant as my first further education then fell into economics). I hope the application process goes well! I'm a few years off a PhD yet due to home life changes but can't wait to apply soon!

[@zteking6186]

wow your note taking is done so neatly. Nice work

[@KetlinCarramanhos]

Congrats on your first week!!! 🎉💐👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@SelfHelpShelf]

Thank you, Ketlin!!

[@Emilywilson10222]

Eeek I’m so happy for you!! I’m so excited for you and this channel! I’m doing my undergrad in classics and so phd is a looong way off for me but I’m still super interested in learning about it and the process!

[@JessiV111]

Soooo I’m already knowing for sure , that I will have absolutely no idea what she is talking about , but I’m intrigued and feeling like maybe somehow if I watch her I’ll get smarter hahahaha So pretty too perfect complexion ! Subscribed I will have no idea what you’re talking about but I’m still curious

[@robgau2501]

Brilliant and Beautiful.

[@OrigamiCalm]

I'm so glad you're doing this!! Well done for making your dream a reality :-) I did a Classics degree in the 80s (absolutely loved it) - and I tutor in Latin and Greek. Classics is just the best!! Good luck with your Greek. So much nicer to be able to read the texts in the original, as you know. Enjoy your PhD - I'm looking forward to catching up with your other videos.

[@nickrhodes9031]

Hi Cinzia, I see the Phd has started in earnest...super stoked for you. Did you get through all 3 books in the Wolf Haul? Still only half way through the third book but not reading to a deadline like you. On the academic front I just wanted to let you know that despite her M.E. my daughter (after a 6 yearly struggle) has been informed of her resulting grade for her English Language & Creative Writing degree (at Birmingham coincidentally). She was awarded a first...so proud. Knocks my similarly gained 2:1 into a cocked hat.

[@TheSilveryew]

Your thesis topic sounds super interesting! I know it is a long way down the line but will you store it somewhere, where there is open access so we can read it? (in my experience a lot of institutions do have a repository where researchers put a copy of their work, but there's often an embargo on making it widely accessible because reasons).

[@SelfHelpShelf]

No, it’s not allowed to be open access. It will be part of the University publishing library so it will be open to other students. If all goes well though, I’d like to use my topic and make it into a book. It wouldn’t be my exact thesis, but it would be related to it.

[@JohnMiller-zr8pl]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@belledobson2007]

I would like to know more about your end game, the position you would like to be working in and for whom you would like to work ?

[@robertdeskoski9783]

Bookish and geeky. You're speaking my mouthmusic.

[@BellBookandCandel]

I too am applying to the UB for a phD in classics. Would you kindly update us on your PhD studies thus far? Kindly, Elizabeth

[@evolutionofshyanne5917]

I love your modernism and post modernism video !!!

[@justStardust940]

is your program free + stipend? Most phds programs here in the US (especially the ones that are in science since they get a lot of government funding) are free and students even get a small living stipend. is it like that in the UK? and is it common for people to do PhD while working full time ? here, the US, almost nobody does that unless they have kids because it is just too time consuming

[@SelfHelpShelf]

No, that's not the system here in the UK unfortunately. You either get funded PhDs or you pay for them yourselves (or take out a loan, but that's only England and Wales I believe). If you're doing a PhD part-time here, and you're not funded, you have to work full-time

[@manuelr7121]

do you write ? i want you to read my novel

[@ambarvalia9757]

are you french or british

[@schylerreis5227]

Why don't you just take your notes digitally, it seems like it would save a ton of time?

[@SelfHelpShelf]

I do take my notes digitally.

[@debra13]

Can you speak more slowly on your channel?

[@shararehmoradi2355]

Hey! Are you the lady that talked about signifier and signified? That amazing video is unfortunately private now and I can't find the resource channel so I was wondering if you are the one? 🥲

[@SelfHelpShelf]

Yes I am! It's on my main channel, here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6W7q3pthb-tra8