Care and Feeding of your Dissertation-Writing Friend, Part 1

by Penname von Pseudonym

Recently, I read a great article about “Caring for your Introvert,” which was followed up recently by the equally as insightful “Careand Feeding of your Extrovert”. Both articles talked about what it was like to be an Introvert/Extrovert and how that affected their interactions and feelings.

This series is about Care and Feeding of your Dissertation-Writing Friend.

I am qualified to write this blog because I, too, am writing up. I am loaded with all the stress and uncertainty and, frankly, disappointment that writing up entails. Some days I wake up and I am so happy that in just a few short months, I will (hopefully) be done with this wretched document, and others I open my eyes only to think: “Good lord, they gave me three years and this drivel is all I managed to produce.” That’s a topic for a different post, though...

In Photos: Masquerade BA Dinner

CRIBS: MELISA

Melisa studies sociology, and lives at the very top of a house on Trumpington Street. If you like patterns and postcards, you'll probably want to move into her room. On a rainy Tuesday in May, Melisa was listening to Wagner and drinking rosehip tea.

Next year, Pete Dudfield will be cycling across Azerbaijan and Australia.

Peter Dudfield, former Vice-President of the Graduate Parlour and in his second year of a PhD studying Earth Sciences, is taking next year off to cycle 30,000 kilometres raising money for the Red Cross. He's already made a naked cycling calendar, t-shirts and mugs, along with running a cycle fixing workshop.

We caught up with him to ask more about his plans to cycle around the world. 

When did you first come up with this idea?

I cycled from Cambridge to Athens two and a half years ago, and that inspired me to do something bigger. I thought about it for a while, and then made the decision to go around the world last September.