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Jul. 15th, 2009 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastienneI didn't get it.
I could feel, in the interview, that I was their second-choice candidate (not that this says much; I'm pretty sure that there were only two candidates!) so have spent the last 24 hours in a haze of painful almost-certain uncertainty. This confirmation is good in comparison; it's closure.
What I should focus on, then, is making my application for 2010 as strong as possible.
The first step is to crack on with making sure that my dissertation is distinction-worthy, so that I fulfill the requirement for academic excellence; after that I need to engage with Social Informatics, and with my potential-future-supervisor, so as to make the strongest application possible.
I should also put in applications for the Research Assistant positions that I've been looking at. More research experience can only be a good thing, and I think I'd like to put electrodes on people's heads for a living!
Unfortunately, something funny appears to have happened to my motivation, so these things may have to wait. All I want to do is get on my new pink bike (thanks![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
magic_doors!) and ride and ride and ride. Preferably in the rain. Oh, teenage melodrama, never leave me.
I think I'll go and buy a bike helmet and lock, and pick the thing up from the Oxford Cycle Workshop.
I could feel, in the interview, that I was their second-choice candidate (not that this says much; I'm pretty sure that there were only two candidates!) so have spent the last 24 hours in a haze of painful almost-certain uncertainty. This confirmation is good in comparison; it's closure.
What I should focus on, then, is making my application for 2010 as strong as possible.
The first step is to crack on with making sure that my dissertation is distinction-worthy, so that I fulfill the requirement for academic excellence; after that I need to engage with Social Informatics, and with my potential-future-supervisor, so as to make the strongest application possible.
I should also put in applications for the Research Assistant positions that I've been looking at. More research experience can only be a good thing, and I think I'd like to put electrodes on people's heads for a living!
Unfortunately, something funny appears to have happened to my motivation, so these things may have to wait. All I want to do is get on my new pink bike (thanks
magic_doors!) and ride and ride and ride. Preferably in the rain. Oh, teenage melodrama, never leave me.I think I'll go and buy a bike helmet and lock, and pick the thing up from the Oxford Cycle Workshop.
