My First Week as a PhD Student 

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! :)

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 💗

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

This is awesome! Really wishing you all the best!

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!

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

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

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

So glad to be here with you since day one

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!🌼

Congratulations! So happy for you!

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

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

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

So excited for this channel yey ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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

This is so exciting! So happy for you Cinzia 💓

All the best for these first weeks!!

Exciting!!! Congrats on your first week

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...

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!

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

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

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 I am so happy for you.

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

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

wow your note taking is done so neatly. Nice work

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!

Excited for you! Congrats on starting a PhD :D

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

first week whoot whoot!!!

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!

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.

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.

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

Brilliant and Beautiful.

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 ?

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

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).

Bookish and geeky. You're speaking my mouthmusic.

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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

are you french or british

I love your modernism and post modernism video !!!

do you write ? i want you to read my novel

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

Can you speak more slowly on your channel?

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? 🥲