Hand writing a PhD thesis

[KAMIKORUSU]

Lol'ed so hard when he said the hardest challenge right now was to read his own handwriting :P

[SuperTechieJ]

I do the same thing. Everything is handwritten first, then I get it on the computer (Mac in my case).

[ChronusXIII]

It has been 2 months now. So how did it go ?

[artloevik]

infinite respect for his hard work. Glad someone got it in them..:D

[blindedby2monkeys]

3 people failed their GED

[MantisCrawl]

does james have a youtube channel of his own?

[flamingaxe791]

Good luck

[dblitroot]

Best of luck

I hope You manage to retype the text in the correct order :)))

[raydredX]

5:32 That sounds like a really crappy thing.

[XxhilfmirxX]

so... how did it go? been waiting for a follow up video..

[nottinghamscience]

@XxhilfmirxX still going!

[THEGAMINGRULER]

OMG the first impression of his hand writing for me was "is this english" lol but the importance that if u can read ur own hand writing *he just said that that i going to be a struggle* 0-O

[xlrv1]

Hand writing rules. Always brings out better ideas. Am looking forward to Patterns in Sand.

[Vennificus]

You can talk about physics all day? Challenge SET. Make a 24h video covering as much physics as you can, in some semblance of depth

[catsfromhell1]

Good luck Mr. Clewett! :)

[MurCurieux]

Good luck!

[volound]

i just learned what fastidious means :) thanks.

[mrjonjoseph]

I would love more videos of James.

[TheTaylorfull]

Im writing my medical engineering PhD thesis at the moment.

[AccountTredecim]

@TheTaylorfull Good luck! :)

[TheTaylorfull]

@AccountTredecim Cheers

[lilqil]

All the best for your thesis, James! - Aqilah, BSc Physics with Medical Physics 2005-2008

[bigestlee]

I would listen to James discuss the deeper implications of his weekly grocery shopping list. More videos of him, please.

[w00td00t]

It never even occurred to me that people could even try to cheat on a PhD thesis...

[glenwoofit]

Good Luck with reading your hand writing, With hand writing like that you were born to be a Dr.

[RavnoUK]

Just started with writing my phd thesis.. and i honetly feel sooo related to this video, I think i wont sleep in months.. :(.

[Mike1614b]

make a copy. trust me

[jeebersjumpincryst]

James, youre such a genuine, nice, decent and likeable guy. Thanks for sharing with us all what youve shared already, and be encouraged that a couple of thousand of us avid fans are sincerely wishing you the very best. The upcoming vid where u proudly wave that bit of paper is going to give the thumbs up button a right hammering!!!

[anil2]

That's fantastic dude!

[Semikindless]

Those 80 pages when typed would occupy, what, 20 pages? But yeah, they're just notes. Also the hand writing looks like hieroglyphs. Still nice, congratulations on your PhD :)

[TheFounderUtopia]

Thanks for the hand writing tip, James. :) While I'm not writing a PhD thesis I do have a tendency to be extremely verbose, finding it very hard to compact what I want to say into something simple and concise. Maybe if I try hand writing it first it will slow me down enough to find the right balance. I'll give it a try. :) Good luck with your PhD!

[pauldve]

Can you write a thesis on Tetris?

[ieatatoms]

Viva = an intellectual raping. 

[iverson92123]

Thanks for the upload!

[MisterDerban]

Good luck ! :D

[33TheJoker33]

Do let us know if he passes it!

I'm sure he will :)

[akashasgarden]

Good luck!

Let us know if you got your degree! Make another video!!

[Redshift64]

"And I'm going to bring in some guy from another univers--"

What?

"--ity"

Oh. I've been watching too much Futurama lately.

[Gytax0]

Good luck.

[dstdvl]

what a dork! nice teeth, tho.

[Ciweman]

I hope he make it!!

[assqwert]

just bind your publication together. what are you doing man.

[QwoPhasaArius]

@assqwert totally. puncture some holes with your nails and tie string through. or better yet, cellotape.

[utwahoo]

I'll be defending my dissertation in chemistry in just a little over a month here in the US--using a computer to construct it is difficult enough, but that takes some major dedication to hand write it! Best of luck to you!

[culwin]

With all the people who become PhDs, I don't get how they can have original work every time. I mean, I seriously doubt any new PhD has an earth-shattering discovery that is new to their subject.

[Craigmw45]

@culwin Most new work, either a published paper, or a thesis, or really anything, is not entirely new, and almost never earth shattering.

In a general sense, most published work, is at best a new experiment which confirms something already thought to be true. Or new research into an area not thought to be of all that much importance.

Knowledge moves more or less at a crawl with each new paper/thesis, almost never does anyone come up with something like special relativity.

[sk8hack]

@culwin i think new doesn't mean earth-shattering, it could be something nobody had considered previously or solving some problem. i know it sounds crazy that someone can come up with something new knowing that the science knowledge is huge, but science is like the rational numbers, there are a lot of those (more than that) but there is also a lot of holes between them, plus almost every new discovery leads to even more questions which makes the subject interesting

[shnab]

@culwin de broglie on the other hand..... :P

[letterpool]

my god man please tell me you photo copy or scan your pages every now and then for some sort of back up.............

[TeslaRifle]

Do we get to see a video of the bound copy after this is all said and done? Good luck, hope it goes well for you.

[BlaineDeschain]

@EleVRs My girlfriend is German (From Baden), she just said you don't. I think you mean a dissertation, which is nothing like a PhD thesis.

[joshuafrye182]

"Then they will stick it in the library and no one will ever read it."

This why I have decided to steer clear of research science.

[PBDPBD]

@joshuafrye182 Nobody reads your thesis, but people do read your papers. Assuming, of course, they are decent papers.

[moungy]

Good Luck James. Hope all goes extremely well for you.

[hooloovoo1st]

I'm nearing the end of a physics degree, and I plan to go for a PhD. Defending a thesis is the thing I am most terrified of!

[oomblikkies]

80 Pages of hand written text amounts to what ... 60 typed pages? Is that enough for a PhD? Good luck!

[emadrio]

He hasn't typed up his thesis and its all there in hard copy. Wouldn't it just be terrible if a gust of wind blew all that hard work away.

[evilmindedsquirrel]

Good luck!

" of course I believe in luck! the harder I work the more luck i have!"

[19Tranc3r92]

YOU CAN DO IT MAN.

[odaymustdie]

I just submitted my PhD thesis today, I feel nervous as hell waiting for the viva.

[saemj]

I like him :) Good luck, I am sure he'll make it.

[JOEX2210]

I love writing my essays and stuff like that, it's just so much quicker and nicer to do, as long I have a nice pen and some thick paper.

[Bingstock]

@JOEX2210

That's what she said.

[Bingstock]

@JOEX2210

That's what she said.

[ScienceHideout]

Good luck!

[ScienceHideout]

Good luck!

[jkl1ng]

may i suggest lined paper?

[BlackSunSerenade]

I'd read it, but I'm afraid I wouldn't understand.

[jkl1ng]

may i suggest lined paper?

[jkl1ng]

may i suggest lined paper?

[wafflethug]

who needs a phd when you're a tetris champion!

[1985cicero]

yeah at least I am not the only one using handwriting!

[DeoMachina]

So what comes after the PhD? (Or what is James planning to do)

[Kaldkriger]

Just finished my freshman thesis

[Robinrobinrobinl]

good luck=)

[FFSray]

i also love to hand write my stuff. on a computer it just feels different and ideas are not flowing the way they should.

[GlowingPotion]

3 or 4 weeks to write up... 80-odd pages.... I should have done physics lol... ;-)

[ohwhererehwho]

Making sense is exhausting work! I like you perspective, writing by hand better teaches you to edit your thoughts. There is too much clutter rattling around otherwise! KUDOS!

[ThatOneSkinnyGuy]

So what would be the next step if one were denied a PhD?

[ThiagowwW10]

@ThatOneSkinnyGuy try again i guess

[QwoPhasaArius]

@ThatOneSkinnyGuy Sturdy ropes can be bought at most DIY departments.

[QwoPhasaArius]

@ThatOneSkinnyGuy Sturdy ropes can be gotten at most DIYdepartments.

[xhotshot12]

this was a really cool video

[mbcx9ts2]

After he gets his PhD, tetris world record?

[X3QT0R]

hand writing a thesis sucks.. be it bachelors or masters or PhD.

[BlaineDeschain]

@EleVRs There is no thesis for a BA......

[XxhilfmirxX]

wow i never thought of doing that, this is a pretty good advice. (even though he wasnt really giving out advice)

the entertainer part of me says "spy cam the viva... but the moral thinking kicks in and kicks in my balls for thinking that.

[bemanos12345]

I want to write a PhD thesis too!! .(But i'll have to wait for about 7-8 years). I just got in the undergraduate studies :)

[VellianoRosso]

I do exactly the same when writing a piece.

blank A4, arrows, fence offs and small handwriting. eerie..

good luck.

[Atheistprimate]

Cant read his own hand writing? Sounds like a doctor already. :)

[yellowmetalcyborg]

@Atheistprimate It's a cypher. So that no one copies his work :)

[fuzzylalala]

good luck!!! :D

[Gameboygenius]

I want to read it. Will it published publicly for the world to see, or do you need to pay the Nottingham University library a visit?

[Nashy119]

I'm not writing a thesis, but I would be scared of not having the vocabulary to articulate what I want to say.

[LiiMuRi]

This is very relevant for me. I'm a PhD student, although still a year or so from my graduation. It's nice to hear other peoples thoughts about the writing process.

[varunasingh]

Oh my, thats PhD and I thought writing my final year thesis was a pain. But its all fun. Love the enthusiasm in research there!

[Redcactus11]

I know you good enough!!!!!

:D

[AstOnokReviews]

makes me both dread and wish for the day i present my own thesis in about 10 years time :)

wish i was at U Nottingham though XD though Dalhousie has been pretty good for my first term:)

you guys inspire me