Why I had to resubmit my thesis

[@ThePrimevalVoid]

"The first time I've had a proper break since...3 years ago?" I felt that in my gut. Yowza.

[@SimonClark]

Yeah I really need to get better at taking time fully off lol

[@ThePrimevalVoid]

I guess unplugging is really the only way to go when you rely on the internet to pay your rent and stuff. The conundrum appears when you can't unplug frequently because you know... plugging in is technically your job. I don't envy your position (although I would also like to be in a position where my videos could fully support me), but yeah you might want to call every winter off and say, "Ciao, I'm disappearing like the sun above the arctic circle." Personally I wouldn't mind waiting for longer if that meant better videos, or videos that were released with a less stressful mindset. I'm subscribed to CGP Grey. Waiting for several months for a video isn't a new concept to me. That being said, I'm sure the numbers on KZbin show you better than it shows me that infrequent - especially horribly infrequent - uploads don't really help you out in the game against The Algorithm. In any case, I love your work, take care :) -- an undergrad physics student who also wants to do youtube cuz why the fuck not

[@TheGrimReapress]

ha! 3 years, you go on holiday too often! i havent been on one in 11, lucky you brits - can always go on holiday abroad...

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Will you adopt me

[@steinraf]

will you adopt me?

[@domrobbo9175]

Dad...?

[@fonorcennell131]

Love your channel

[@earendilthebright5402]

@andrewdotson i love your videos too bro!

[@chrisallen9509]

Hi Andrew

[@anap987]

wow this feeling... being on the top of your work. feeling you know more than your supervisor on the specific subject! priceless! congrats! I will soon be done with my PhD and I CAN NOT WAIT!

[@perpetual_bias]

Good luck!

[@anap987]

Thank you!

[@stardust4001]

PhD on what

[@anap987]

Biochemistry

[@stardust4001]

@@anap987 Niiiiice

[@harryfranks4113]

Loving the youtuber fairly lights. I thought there had been something missing from your channel

[@ThePrimevalVoid]

And the legitimacy plaque. Don't forget that.

[@AminHammami]

Honestly man! I've been treading on a thin line during my two years of phd (in Geological modelling, s'pose you're familiar with the concept) and to be fair, I haven't watched a lot of your videos but I've never regretted any of those 10 minutish. Thanks man! I really aspire to reaching that "Apotheosis" feeling you described.

[@xJokeplaN]

I‘ve watched all of your videos over the course of the past two years and they are so well made it‘s incredible. Also I think they contributed substantially to my decision to start a PhD 4 weeks ago. So glad to hear from you and keep up the awesome work you do :)

[@pseudophd1073]

Congratulations to being one step closer to being completely free! I think major corrections have a bigger stigma for PhDs but as you explained it's not as "major" as it sounds. I spoke to Steve Cross recently who essentially echoed your sentiments stating that he got major corrections, it took a few days of extra analysing of data and that was that. Hope to see more content from you in the future!

[@KaisaKylakoski]

Interesting, thanks. Here in Finland the process (as I have witnessed it from outside) is slightly different. PhD thesis is sent out for "precheck" to 2 senior researchers. They need to agree that the work is sufficient/suitable for PhD, otherwise the the process does not go forward. Precheckers do give comments and requests so that corresponds to what you describe as changes. But it is the final version that is published&submitted to a public and oral examination (like viva, I assume) and it is then very rare that the thesis would be rejected.

[@user-xk2st7fd1f]

I must say your videos are so helpful, insightful and interesting!! I’m hoping to study physics next year , and watching your videos about your experience with college has been so affirming. Thanks for doing what you do!!

[@olga2you]

Your videos help so much🙏🏻 thanks for taking us through your PhD journey. I wish more people did that.

[@kendrajohnson6535]

Yay! It's great to see you again, Simon :)

[@mysusume]

Thank you, Simon! I said it before, but your honesty and realistic breakdown of what a PhD entails has pushed me to go for my own. I've started my doctoral program last week at Waseda University in Japan. Hope you will vlog your graduation ceremony. I want to see you rocking that floppy hat!

[@SurayaHazim]

Hey Simon! You’re right! No one talks about the extra steps post-viva. I just submitted last Friday and this video made me feel a bit better about the (inevitable?) prospect of having major corrections 😂

[@SimonClark]

Best of luck with the viva! It almost certainly won't be as bad as you fear :)

[@KhareJoke1]

I had my viva on the 1st of August and passed with minor, I re submitted my thesis 15 days after and I was awarded the PhD about 2 weeks after 🙏🙏 I need to mention that I killed myself within that 15 days 😂 working 16-17 hours a day just to get it over with

[@SimonClark]

I wish I'd done this! I let mine spill over for much too long. Congrats on being done!

[@KhareJoke1]

you've done incredible, with tons of new simulation and validations, congratulations to you too

[@daisuke910]

Nice! I had minor and finished mine in a month but I waited until 3 months (the time limit) cuz I want to be awarded by uni on my birthday :p Uni emailed me, have you uploaded the thesis online as they received the completed correction form from the examiner. I said, yeah...... But i just want to wait lol

[@cailianxiong7480]

I had my viva on 31 July for my masters thesis 😢

[@zincmanganese1833]

Both new videos are SO GOOD! The mythical beasts one is probably one of your best videos to date. I've just started my degree in biology at Cambridge so am very far away from thinking about PhDs but I love watching your videos to give me a better idea of what it's actually like and whether it's something I'd like to do in the future :D

[@daisuke910]

Good job man. Well done Just completed mine too. It has been a great journey. Such a bittersweet when it's done.

[@Trueskin.Aesthetics]

Random question but, could you do a video on how to critique research or an article?

[@williammorrish9003]

Hi Simon. it's will. scout camp was great!!!

[@danielwarren3138]

COYP

[@kkadam2636]

Notification squad member Great video!! Your hard work in both videos and studies is a great motivator for me Keep making such videos

[@olivia_simone]

"Depending on how you look at the world there's no difference - but there is." As a graduate student I feel this on a spiritual level 😂😅 Also, love the "legitimate" arrow to your play button

[@TheTnaidu]

Congratulations Simon! Been an incredible journey shared by you. Thank you for doing so. Sure the holiday was well deserved. 😊

[@scottsanett]

7:11 I'm only a Master's student and I feel the EXACT same way.

[@AidanMmusic96]

Yep! I'm in that boat from now until May, with a 9000 word essay to write!

[@Goku17yen]

Also, god damn, i definitely plan to go help and volunteer on some events and groups that I did as a kid. That would be such a trip down nostalgia lane, as well as a feel good moment, and overall, as you said, fulfilling, just helping out and connecting back to my "roots"

[@cdandreshotmail]

hey you are so an inspiration for everybody who watch your videos I wish you the best and keep going

[@Chloecyc]

You're back!!!! Legit so excited to see the notification!

[@phdstories3769]

Congrats on finishing up! Looking forward to your future videos!

[@CatherinePryde]

Hah, so worths the wait! This is quite an amazing push for the new school year.

[@nantzstein3311]

Congrats buddy,😤 So many questions, so much stress before starting my own journey... but here is my first question : fees, budget for a PhD student ! ? Did you ever thought of working besides doing your PhD? Keep up the wise work on youtube you're doing dear comrade 😉👊

[@paolobassi544]

Hello is your thesis available online? I can t find in Exeter archive

[@emilyscloset2648]

on his website

[@GonzoTehGreat]

Return to your thesis, log back in to your PC and you'll never now how far down back the rabbit hole you'll have to go....good luck Alice!

[@Aejayem]

That description of searching for, downloading, and processing the data is so familiar. You basically described my entire Master's work - especially because the actual data types are probably nearly identical.

[@safiyas.2546]

I’ve been waiting for this video!!!

[@takiyaazrin7562]

Congratulations!

[@thylatrash7668]

8:31 so precious

[@lite6384]

XD he has a legitimacy sign(literally a paper saying legitimate) under his 100k sub awardXD

[@MarioFlores-mj1xg]

i missed you for two months simon

[@joshuaamberson5266]

He was a podcast channel on KZbin: "Spongy & Electric" with his friend Dan.

[@ThePrimevalVoid]

"Yeah! I'm a scientist now!" What I wouldn't give to be at that stage in my life right now.

[@kumoyuki]

thank you. I'm at that stalled in the middle stage for...reasons...and even the idea of the thesis as stumbling from idea to result to trashed section to eventually a body of work...very helpful.

[@quahntasy]

"The first time I had proper break...since 3 years ago" I can hear my gut churning.

[@deepasarkar3984]

Simmmmonnn...Bro waited for u for a long time.....Nice to see u once again.....

[@Goku17yen]

Finally some vids ma man, good to see you back, even if its with partially bad news lol

[@chenlv9612]

I too used ECWMF data and I am an Environment student, sometimes I feel like the lines betwwen subjects are somewhat blurred these days.

[@Seamemaria]

Yep, a PhD is definitely a Frankenstein creation, I can subscribe to that xD Congratulations on your re-submission!

[@dgym8379]

Simon you are the best!

[@mikestevenson1334]

Hope the extra corrections weren't too bad! I was so glad when I had minor corrections to do. I don't think I could have gone back to do more work on it at the time. Was glad it was over!

[@paulthomas8262]

Sometimes it is easier to manually download, however programming skill definitely helps even if there is a user interaction, security steps, cookies, etc. You can automate or simulate browsing.

[@daisyo.6666]

Just wanted to point out that some people manage to get no corrections at all on their thesis, so this step may not be common to everyone. At least to people in my uni got no corrections this year. Lucky them.

[@AmerQuran]

Although I've just submitted my MSc dissertation in the 3rd September but I can really relate to almost everything you say in the video!

[@albhloool]

I absolutely hates doing it and no longer excited or can’t even push myself to do it! :|

[@Darcy81soccer]

I haven't done a phd but i handed in my minor thesis 2 days ago and feel so empowered having completed it. It feels like I could do anything now

[@SyedRizvii]

I hope I can get on the write up wagon soon. Got a whole thesis to write and can't start at all.... :O :O

[@poplionandrew5803]

pHD (progress) (happiness) (delightful). yeah!

[@KaylorXyai]

Stop spoiling us Dad!! Another video! Yess!

[@LeonDerczynski]

If you don't submit corrections on time, you have to eat Cornish pasties instead of Devonshire, for the rest of your life. True story

[@josemhs1213]

Man Dr. Clark you should upload that data speed part! It looks great haha

[@er1nyes_]

Rocking the College Info Geek t-shirt. Mr Frank will be proud. 😍🙌

[@minzhang8807]

I am working on minor revisions. They give me three months. I though I could finish in 15 days. But it has taken me a month！！ I have not worked very hard. I spend only 3 to 4 hours on it. Hopefully I can send it to my internal examiner this week.

[@zIHaXSaWIz]

Talking of your downloads is giving me flashbacks to my master's

[@douglasVieira89]

Peer review is a lucky game hahah. My Thesis results in two articles, the first have a model much less validated than the second. But the first was accepted by the journal with few minors while the second receives heavily majors appointments T_T

[@teodoras9611]

I wanna be your friend so I get dragged to cool stuff like visiting France or being a scout leader (and because of 100 other reasons) The way you live yor life rocks And that's so inspiring! ^^ I love your videos, something that apparently I feel the need to say from time to time

[@annakeet]

Casually looking at the new and improved background, only to see a bunch of Hanklerfish! How did I not know you're a Nerdfighter?!

[@ragnkja]

Anna Keet Where’s the Hanklerfish?

[@annakeet]

There's a bunch of them on the yellow/gold paper on the wall. And what looks like Hanks signature as well.

[@ozlemtopal9968]

YEEEES! He’s back :D

[@LalaLala-pz2fz]

Which vlog is that at 1:55 where you passed and did your viva? Someone tell me!!!!!

[@gamerduffy]

Thank you for such an inspiring video and channel as a whole, if I ever need to motivate myself to do work I watch your videos (mainly vlogs). Out of interest, what happened to the livestreams where you went through past papers? I found them very useful and they have disappeared. But thank you for being one of the best channels out there (in my opinion)

[@SimonClark]

They will be coming back! I stopped doing them when the exam season (in the UK) wound down, but now that people are back at school and uni I'll be doing more streams going through examples and questions from papers and textbooks. Should be back in the next week or so!

[@gamerduffy]

Simon Clark amazing! They have been good enough that I’ve started recommending them to some teachers to share around the school (not that this should effect how you run the streams). I especially like the music in the background and do that now for my own revision technique. Thank you again. Do you have any choral music recommendations for that kind of stuff?

[@Duckquek17]

Welcome back c:

[@MrNicoJac]

Okay, you do realise that, now, we wanna have a complete walkthrough of your PhD, right?

[@unltd6343]

Glad to see you back at KZbin Simon!

[@novabelladonna5886]

I thought the title meant you had to revise and re-submit (as in you had to do another viva), not that you had major corrections! I just submitted my soft-bound thesis 2 days ago and I'm dreading the viva...

[@SimonClark]

Fortunately nothing that extreme, but I can promise you that resubmitting is stressful under any circumstances! Best of luck for your viva - you'll probably end up enjoying it :)

[@novabelladonna5886]

Didn't enjoy it exactly.. I got major corrections, rather than R&R, which is what I was expecting. Sorry, didn't mean that it wasn't stressful, I'm sure it was. I feel like these corrections will take forever!

[@phyre4430]

Hi Simon, love your videos. Currently studying a masters in climate change myself! Just wanted to know your opinion on how important the grade you get at master’s level is for job applications? Or is it only if you want to do a PhD that the grade becomes really important?

[@ametrinemoon]

Slightly sidetracked by the youtuber lights and the legitimacy lol! I have my thesis for my MSc starting this November, yikes!!

[@marleyalvory3044]

Although mine is minor corrections...but it looks like a major corrections 😭.

[@MunkyChunk]

Majors & minors remind me of my driving test... which I did earlier today and passed, first time!! :D

[@SimonClark]

Congrats!

[@MunkyChunk]

Thank you so much!!! :D

[@pcjetgenius]

"KZbinr fairy lights." Love it.

[@watchfulalt]

What are your plans now?

[@weirdandthensome]

Finallyyyyyyy new video!!!!!

[@FarisSalman]

”..ends up being this kind of garbled Frankenstein's monster of a creation" LOL

[@ThePresident001]

Can I ask if your thesis was a monography or did you do cumulative? I've done cumulative and it seems far less stressful.

[@sankalpc9492]

Missed you bro

[@luanmorosini]

Since you won't read my comment, much less answer it, I'll tell you the truth: besides loving your channel, which I met a few days ago, I love the color of your eyes.

[@JohnFisherChoir]

You can also pass with no corrections ….

[@BaronTheBull]

How did you know what area of physics you wanted to do your PhD in? Im a 3rd year chemistry undergrad and plan on doing a PhD, I have so many ideas on what topics I would like to do but cannot do them all!

[@Languagevlogs]

Thank you for inspiring me to Vlog.

[@hoffmathsmathematics8027]

I am happy for you!!!...👍🍀🖖📚🌟🎼☯️

[@ERROR204.]

Great video.

[@samrahn7184]

I was wondering your opinion on sciences at Cambridge vs Oxford?

[@Cliff.Li88]

I used the word Frankenstein (as did my supervisor) in my viva for the analytical framework I developed in my thesis, lol, what a lovely coincidence! Congratulations Dr. Clark :-)

[@MaxToffee]

Nice video, Dr Clark?

[@zaynabshaik5340]

Oh man, just had to make alterations before resubmission!

[@kanadmainkar4601]

Hey Simon! Now that you have done your PhD, what will you do for work?

[@malkisehgal2481]

1Question Only: What Do you Mean By Original Research

[@Aliusmi]

Hey, what’s going on. Another great video 😊 Nice one though.

[@CaitlinFotheringham]

Congratulations Simon for finishing your thesis and thank you for teaching us about the process. I've recently started vlogging my experiences as an electrical engineering student at Glasgow University and I'd really appreciate it if you'd check them out. Cheers!

[@hrishikestadwalkar7411]

Thanks!

[@tinyblue36]

Just started my second undergrad year studying astrophysics - any tips?!

[@SimonClark]

Focus on reps! Do as many practice problems as possible and you'll get to really understand the subject matter :)

[@sarkar_ma]

What laptop do you use?

[@RealJokerOfMadrid]

Wait why didn't you write a program?

[@qwertyTRiG]

That was really interesting. I'm a second year student on my second pass through college, with vague dreams of ending up in academia. We'll see what happens.

[@alihouadef5539]

my sweetheart thesis, i feel the same way

[@victor.hausen]

I wish i've had been thought to hunt, skin and butch my own food when I was a kid :( Now I need to rely on processed food.

[@ThePrimevalVoid]

Your patreon link is broken, by the way.

[@SimonClark]

Fixed, thanks for the spot!