Again, I can only speak for the School of IT. When it comes to the more...popular schools like Business or Engineering, they have a much larger pool of qualified supervisors to choose from.

But yes, I was pretty much limited to a certain few topics to choose from, as compared to if I do my PhD in Melbourne. Their IT schools are more established.

Haha, just because I said public unis are better funded doesn't mean we have NO equipment. Besides, since I'm in the IT field, all we need is a decent computer, a good net connection and enough TV series to last for 3 years.

Regarding your question about the post grad labs, each school has its own post grad lab, there's no central lab. Our IT lab is mostly cubicles and computers. What little I've seen of the engineering lab gives me the impression that it's adequate to conduct research, but not wholly impressive.

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Added on July 11, 2010, 10:10 pmErm... I'm not certain about this one. There are *some* students that have different supervisors from different campus branches, but as far as I know, anyone doing research locally has to do it locally. I could be wrong though.

This post has been edited by VMSmith: Jul 11 2010, 10:10 PM

That sounds like a reasonable arragement.

The reason why I have doubts this happens for our Malaysian campus is how our scholarships work (please bear with me for a while. .

Even though someone has secured a scholarship for the PhD. programme here, they cannot transfer over to any other campus and still maintain that scholarship. They will have to re-apply for it. So that makes me assume that the Monash education policy is for each campus to be as research-independent as possible, at least in terms of money and resources.

I'm sure this must be covered in some terms and conditions somewhere, just that I'm already neck-deep in enough trouble as it is.

Sent a PM your way.

For "typical" corporate jobs, PhD grads are considered to be over-qualified. Though I've heard stories of people desperate enough to leave out their PhD qualification from their resume when looking for work, I've never met one personally.

Yea, usually they'll either go lecturing in academia, or do research for an external company. I know a couple of them who seem quite happy in British Telecommunications. I prefer to lecture, though.

Yeap. Just started reading it on and off last year.

It helps to know when other PhD students go through the same crap that you do.

Final year PhD student from Miskatonic University. My research area is in anthropology.

I'm currently conducting studies on prehistoric culture and and social dynamics.

Yeah, you should hear about all these weird stories I keep hearing around campus.

Neither, they both left the campus due to "mysterious circumstances". Prof. Freeborn is my supe.

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Added on July 15, 2010, 4:41 pmI'm a big Chtulhu fan (obviously), but I'm actually surprised that the first few people who know what Miskatonic U. really is, is on this forum. I've only known one other person in real-life who knows about H.P. Lovecraft.

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Added on July 15, 2010, 4:42 pmAnd anything related to PhD. education is even more so. One of my colleagues told me that after X years of research after grad school, they'll never be interested in it ever again.

I get the feeling that's an exaggeration, but I certainly feel like it!

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Added on July 15, 2010, 4:44 pmThere's some truth in my lies. I've said I've come from 3 different unis. so far, all except one are fictional.

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Added on July 15, 2010, 5:03 pmAs an IT grad student, I'm sad to say that I agree.

While PhD research/studies is not easy, I feel that some areas are harder than others. I've always wondered if my life would be easier if I did postgrad research on say, economics, rather than fool around with mapping algorithms.

This post has been edited by VMSmith: Jul 15 2010, 05:03 PM

For me personally, my lecturer never helped me to apply for my scholarship. Monash is pretty strict about the criteria, but they're also quite transparent about it.

However, he did help me get some emergency funds for a conference as the Finance department was quite slow in processing said funds and I was supposed to fly in just a couple of days!

Not sure how it's like in ANU, but for Monash here, the decision pretty much lies with the Head of School.

That isn't strictly true.

I'll bet. That is 5 times my own allowance.

Heck, even my pay will not be that high when I finally get my ass to work.

This post has been edited by VMSmith: Aug 25 2010, 03:15 PM

I think we've all been in the education line to know that unfortunately, senior lecturers do not get senior salaries.

I believe tectonic studies is more related to shifting of the earth's crusts rather than being directly related to O&G.