Monday, June 23, 2008

Return to Mt. Tsukuba, PhD Research Topic Selection

How does going to a party, celebrating a friend`s surprise birthday at the party, finishing off at 3am in the morning, then going to Mount Tsukuba, returning at 8.30am and then going to meet your PhD supervisor to talk about your PhD research topic sound? In a word, I would say crazy....and crazy it was! Saturday 21st June was a crazy day. I don`t think I can capture the craziness with words so I`ll just end it here. But when I say it was crazy, believe me it was....if you are reading this Abraham, Kristina (birthday girl!) and Jurate, it was real fun that night!

I have now reached the point that I was dreading ever since I arrived in Japan. I now have to decide what I`ll be doing for my PhD and that`s really bothering me. What I decide now in 2 - 3 months will then decide how the next three years of my life will be spent. And its not just the next three years but actually my entire life that depends on what I will do for my PhD. For my MSc, I had in my over enthusiasm chosen a very complex research and as a result I spent almost two long years laboriously working to complete it, even working on Diwali and New Year!...but it was worth it.

Yuta sensei explained that his policies of the Roboken Lab was that students principally decided their own research topics depending on their interest and specialization and most of the time, they were allowed to continue in their chosen fields. So, I now have to think about what I`m going to do. My PhD entrance exam is on August 20th and there are countless application forms to be filled. I just had a stroke of luck though and that is I`m not required to have an English language skills assessment. But from now till August 20th, I think I`ll have sleepless nights trying to think up of a research topic.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

u can definitely do it, aneesh...... i am proud of u today.

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