Longer actually - I'm being granted an extension because my supervisor's had some stuff going on which has meant he's not been able to see me for a few months. So I should be finished some time in October!
Recently received news that I've been offered a PhD Scholarship. For the next four years I'll be dedicated to Colorectal Cancer research. Your videos helped and motivated me through my masters and have also inspired me to document my PhD journey via Vlogs and social media. Thanks Simon!
As a first year undergrad student, this is so inspiring. I love how you balance work with fun and relationships and the end result is you're living an extremely stressful but extremely fulfilling life. Six more weeks, good luck!
legit just found your vids today been watching them all day just to procrastinate from studying for mock exams and see you uploaded a new one 25 mins ago c:
Mate, we all know that you love doing RUclips, but if it's preventing you from doing your thesis to your ful potential, don't think we'll be mad for you not uploading. It's completely understandable. Right now, your thesis is the most important thing in your life, and it might be the biggest thing (academically) you'll accomplish, so make sure you do it brilliantly well! Good luck, A Beloved Fan (P.S. spectacular video as usual, I can really see a huge improvement in editing, keep it up!)
I'm a PhD student. Sometimes when I am bored or I am lazy to work, I watch one of your videos and it makes me motivated and excited to start working on my thesis again. Thank you for sharing your experience
It does happen to me too--the sweat on the forehead after putting on make up thing, and it's not just the forehead, the same happens to the bridge of my nose. Yes, even during cooler weather! All the best of luck on your thesis! :)
Loving the series Simon, turns out you can have a life alongside a PhD! Great seeing the Exeter campus again too having spent the last couple of years working in the Aquatic Research Centre in Geoffrey Pope building. Keep up the good work!
i feel your pain ... i'm 6 weeks behind you with my phd submission date and watching your vids has kept me sane! can't thank you enough for sharing your journey. good luck with completion :-)
Really happy that you felt the same way I did after watching Dunkirk. If only I could have the chance to witness that magic for the very first time once more. You're so close to finishing your thesis now too, good luck! :)
Hey buddy, just wanted to let you know ive been watching your videos for a couple of months and they are just great, and as a programming-amateur currently studying math you are a great inspiration as the stuff you do is pretty incredible. Hope everything works out my man, cheers.
1. Though I understand it won't happen, it's my selfish desire for you and Dan to wear makeup all the time. 2. Dunkirk blew my GD mind. Symphonic, man. 3. Good luck with the final stages of your thesis! I'm currently (and have been for a few years now) trying to figure out what to do with my life post-undergraduate degree (post-bac? I'm not sure what the equivalent is in England), and getting a PhD is an option. Seeing your dogged dedication to your work, your delight in your hobbies, and your strong friendships has inspired and continues to inspire me while I figure myself out. 4. Addicted to book buying, myself. Especially philosophy books that are impossibly difficult. 5. WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU GOING?
Old video but so relatable to me right now. Currently starting the epic journey of writing my PhD thesis - mass spec/proteomics mixed with cancer research. Can’t wait until submission!
I feel your pain - I'm running NLP programs overnight on my laptop for my PhD... and then hoping they work/don't crash/that I can get the other work done the rest of the time! Good luck with the write-up, I'm beginning my final year :-/
Good luck for your thesis! Fan of the channel this is inspiring me to continue onto my PhD. You were in MALTA!!!! Wished to have met you man. Best wishes from Malta! :)
Hi Simon, seeing as you're struggling to run your code on your laptop, have you considered using Amazon Web Services? I often use it to run python scripts for machine learning from my laptop, and I can't recommend it enough! Look into AWS Educate to get free credit for renting a server (it's not very expensive anyway).
I love this series so much, so cool to see how far you've come with your thesis! Ik it may be stressful to think about, but maybe a follow up series could be "life after phd"? You could talk about your plans and job search and like, what you plan to do with all the work you've done. I watch alot of people who talk about their phd or law school studies but I feel like the post grad is kinda a void that nobody wants to talk about? Either way, love the videos!
Thank you SO MUCH for breaking down your thesis writting in this way, Simon! I'm currently writting a detailed plan of mine and I've been feeling like, should'nt this be way longer? and am I not just writting a bigger Masters thesis, rather than an actual PhD? Isn't this complete and utter crap? But looking at what you're doing, I don't know, it just feels a lot more achievable and like I am going in the right direction. Thanks so much, mate.
Oh man, I am getting a lot of secondary stress from this video. I am nearly in the same phase of my phd as you are of yours, just having a couple of days off before the final “season”. I admire that you are still able to do all that work around youtube, for me the last year or so it has just been a train of presentations, meetings with my advisor, travelling to conferences, coding, teaching, writing papers, submitting the papers, rewriting the papers, resubmitting the papers and so on and so forth. I am so drained that I am not even able to grab my guitar time to time anymore or go shopping for groceries. I feel like a robot with one goal and that is to get the work done and then I go to silicon heaven. I wonder how stupid I must be when I do all this and earn barely enough money to pay my rent. Still, I cannot stop; it is like a drug (I imagine). Oh, and that room is fine, you should see mine :-) Good luck!!
Virtualenv is definitely a simple workaround.. I had to jump through one more hoop.. the machines I had access too did not have virtualenv installed.. so I had to add a custom PYTHONPATH pointer in the environment variable and install virtualenv there, and then use virtualenv for all other stuff..
Simon, given that you're doing such intensive coding as part of your thesis, could you, in the future make a video on your path of learning programming? Like what languages you learnt, what concepts you went into and the seqeunce of it all? I don't know if that'd be a popular demand but I'd love to have a sort of a checklist on the way to learning useful programming.
Hey Simon! I just wondered if it would at all be possible for you to release your final thesis to your RUclips community once it is finished. I do not know any of the rules on doing a PhD and if doing that would be breaking any of them but if you could i reckon there would be quite a few people, including myself, who would love to read through it.
Solomon Chamberlin my current university has everyone's thesis from the past 10 years on their website for everyone to see, I'd expect Exeter to have something similar
Hey Simon, I keep seeing Belfast vlog written on the whiteboard on your computer hard drive, is this a vlog yet to be edited, if so any idea when you'll release it? I'm from there and it would be nice to see your perspective on the city.
When you said you were going to insert clips of you falling over, I thought you meant the same clip, but wow you really were able to film your unfortunate events 👍☺👏 Love you Psy
Wait, you said that your submission date is in 6 weeks. And this was for end of July, so I'm guessing you've submitted?! In which case, congrats! I'm sure it'll be great catching up on socialising and sleep!
If I'd had the time to properly write and shoot a video I would have done it in a heartbeat - unfortunately time is a luxury I just don't have these days!
Hey Simon, a while back you mentioned that you were thinking about doing a sample coding video. I was wondering if you were still doing that or if you already had and I just can't find it. Oh and by the way I love these videos, keep up the good work!
hey, watching you is so amusing! do you know any other youtuber who is also a phd student but works on other fields such as arts or social sciences? I'm seriously thinking about pursuing a phd on photography but the research on the UK it's a little different from where I'm from and I feel a little lost haha.
Ok first of all I LOVE YOU AND YOUR CHANNEL You are my inspiration to study while doing the things I love ( non education related ) do your best and make us all proud🙂🙂🙂 THAT WAS EXACTLY ME AND MY FRIEND AFTER DUNKIRK😂😂 such a masterpiece
Hey Simon, can I just ask what the process was when you were thinking of what to do a PhD in? How did you come up with the topic you're doing now? Love your vlogs, will miss them :O - a fellow physicist :)
So I applied for a bunch of projects that sounded interesting to me based on my experience of previous research at undergrad and what bits of the physics I liked. As it turns out I ended up at Exeter because the funding opportunities associated with the other projects fell through, so the choice was made for me!
Hey Simon, just wondering whether at the end of your PhD your thesis (and code LOL) will be published/uploaded so we can see what you've been working on in it's entirety?
i had my approval from the supervisor so I applied for the PhD and now am anxiously waiting for the decision, while watching these videos and thinking OMG OMG OMG OMG PLEASE LET IT BE haha...
I will be doing plenty more, don't worry! Time is very limited at the moment so I have precious little time to read or make videos about what I've been reading, but after I hand in I have big plans :)
Ah, damn. I was hoping to be the first comment, but someone beat me to it. I am so excited for you to finish your PhD so you have time to so more videos more often. :)
How much time is left for thesis now
Longer actually - I'm being granted an extension because my supervisor's had some stuff going on which has meant he's not been able to see me for a few months. So I should be finished some time in October!
Which means we can expect atleast 3 more phd vlogs !🤤🤤
Simon Clark I'm gonna miss these vlogs
You managed to get a time extension? Have you considered working for Blizzard Entertainment?? :)
Simon Clark Goodluck Simon. Waiting patiently for your submission video! From a fellow PhD candidate from Sydney, Australia
Breaking up the "boring" bits with you falling. Simon you god damn genius
Haha with material as boring as my thesis you need to get creative!
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Recently received news that I've been offered a PhD Scholarship. For the next four years I'll be dedicated to Colorectal Cancer research. Your videos helped and motivated me through my masters and have also inspired me to document my PhD journey via Vlogs and social media. Thanks Simon!
+Garreth Lawrence wahey, congratulations!
Your chapter-by-chapter breakdown of your thesis was really interesting, but videos of you falling over were the best bonus ever.
2:52 Smooth man, smooth 😂 I'll have to try that tactic sometime
As a first year undergrad student, this is so inspiring. I love how you balance work with fun and relationships and the end result is you're living an extremely stressful but extremely fulfilling life. Six more weeks, good luck!
legit just found your vids today been watching them all day just to procrastinate from studying for mock exams and see you uploaded a new one 25 mins ago c:
Haha glad to have you along for the journey! Hope you liked the video :)
Idk if this is as weird for you as it is for me but don't you gotta do some thesis rather then check comments and look at analytics my man.
Probably the only youtuber I watch every video of now! Great video as always Simon.
Mate, we all know that you love doing RUclips, but if it's preventing you from doing your thesis to your ful potential, don't think we'll be mad for you not uploading. It's completely understandable. Right now, your thesis is the most important thing in your life, and it might be the biggest thing (academically) you'll accomplish, so make sure you do it brilliantly well!
Good luck,
A Beloved Fan
(P.S. spectacular video as usual, I can really see a huge improvement in editing, keep it up!)
I'm going through my first year of PhD study. Can't wait to be at your stage already! Haha all the best to your writing up. 👍🏼
Haha and here's me wishing I was in first year again! What's your thesis going to be about?
the clouds and the flow of them look really interesting at the start of the video
Falling inserts actually worked...and kept me attentive during your paper narrative
I'm a PhD student. Sometimes when I am bored or I am lazy to work, I watch one of your videos and it makes me motivated and excited to start working on my thesis again. Thank you for sharing your experience
It does happen to me too--the sweat on the forehead after putting on make up thing, and it's not just the forehead, the same happens to the bridge of my nose. Yes, even during cooler weather!
All the best of luck on your thesis! :)
Loving the series Simon, turns out you can have a life alongside a PhD! Great seeing the Exeter campus again too having spent the last couple of years working in the Aquatic Research Centre in Geoffrey Pope building. Keep up the good work!
Could you possibly do a thesis/scientific writing video course? Think there's a gap in the market there ;)
Just finished my Master thesis 2 weeks ago! I really can identify with you! well, i am wishing you the best of luck!! :DD
Thank you!
i feel your pain ... i'm 6 weeks behind you with my phd submission date and watching your vids has kept me sane! can't thank you enough for sharing your journey. good luck with completion :-)
Really happy that you felt the same way I did after watching Dunkirk. If only I could have the chance to witness that magic for the very first time once more.
You're so close to finishing your thesis now too, good luck! :)
Hey buddy, just wanted to let you know ive been watching your videos for a couple of months and they are just great, and as a programming-amateur currently studying math you are a great inspiration as the stuff you do is pretty incredible. Hope everything works out my man, cheers.
Every two minutes or so in your videos, I find myself going ??? lol but it's very interesting to see you talking about your work!
1. Though I understand it won't happen, it's my selfish desire for you and Dan to wear makeup all the time.
2. Dunkirk blew my GD mind. Symphonic, man.
3. Good luck with the final stages of your thesis! I'm currently (and have been for a few years now) trying to figure out what to do with my life post-undergraduate degree (post-bac? I'm not sure what the equivalent is in England), and getting a PhD is an option. Seeing your dogged dedication to your work, your delight in your hobbies, and your strong friendships has inspired and continues to inspire me while I figure myself out.
4. Addicted to book buying, myself. Especially philosophy books that are impossibly difficult.
5. WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU GOING?
Old video but so relatable to me right now. Currently starting the epic journey of writing my PhD thesis - mass spec/proteomics mixed with cancer research. Can’t wait until submission!
I feel your pain - I'm running NLP programs overnight on my laptop for my PhD... and then hoping they work/don't crash/that I can get the other work done the rest of the time! Good luck with the write-up, I'm beginning my final year :-/
Good luck for your thesis! Fan of the channel this is inspiring me to continue onto my PhD. You were in MALTA!!!! Wished to have met you man. Best wishes from Malta! :)
Hi Simon, seeing as you're struggling to run your code on your laptop, have you considered using Amazon Web Services? I often use it to run python scripts for machine learning from my laptop, and I can't recommend it enough! Look into AWS Educate to get free credit for renting a server (it's not very expensive anyway).
You can do it! Top tip: schedule texts that say this to be sent to yourself every few days hahaha.
Best of luck!
So good to see you again!! with the science
I love this series so much, so cool to see how far you've come with your thesis! Ik it may be stressful to think about, but maybe a follow up series could be "life after phd"? You could talk about your plans and job search and like, what you plan to do with all the work you've done. I watch alot of people who talk about their phd or law school studies but I feel like the post grad is kinda a void that nobody wants to talk about? Either way, love the videos!
Thank you SO MUCH for breaking down your thesis writting in this way, Simon! I'm currently writting a detailed plan of mine and I've been feeling like, should'nt this be way longer? and am I not just writting a bigger Masters thesis, rather than an actual PhD? Isn't this complete and utter crap?
But looking at what you're doing, I don't know, it just feels a lot more achievable and like I am going in the right direction. Thanks so much, mate.
True story, Chis Crocker's 'Leave Britney Alone' video was the first RUclips video I ever watched. Love your videos, Simon! :) P.s. You can do it !!
Good luck with finishing - final push!
This was uploaded on my birthday! Couldn't have asked for a better birthday present! :D
Oh man, I am getting a lot of secondary stress from this video. I am nearly in the same phase of my phd as you are of yours, just having a couple of days off before the final “season”. I admire that you are still able to do all that work around youtube, for me the last year or so it has just been a train of presentations, meetings with my advisor, travelling to conferences, coding, teaching, writing papers, submitting the papers, rewriting the papers, resubmitting the papers and so on and so forth. I am so drained that I am not even able to grab my guitar time to time anymore or go shopping for groceries. I feel like a robot with one goal and that is to get the work done and then I go to silicon heaven. I wonder how stupid I must be when I do all this and earn barely enough money to pay my rent. Still, I cannot stop; it is like a drug (I imagine). Oh, and that room is fine, you should see mine :-) Good luck!!
Loving so much of your content. Keep it up simon!! You can do it man!!! :-)
Simon's RUclips career: code broken, code fixed, code broken, code fixed, code broken, code fixed LOL!
Virtualenv is definitely a simple workaround.. I had to jump through one more hoop.. the machines I had access too did not have virtualenv installed.. so I had to add a custom PYTHONPATH pointer in the environment variable and install virtualenv there, and then use virtualenv for all other stuff..
Ouch!
Well, you know how the adage goes.. experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Simon, given that you're doing such intensive coding as part of your thesis, could you, in the future make a video on your path of learning programming?
Like what languages you learnt, what concepts you went into and the seqeunce of it all?
I don't know if that'd be a popular demand but I'd love to have a sort of a checklist on the way to learning useful programming.
Hey Simon!
I just wondered if it would at all be possible for you to release your final thesis to your RUclips community once it is finished.
I do not know any of the rules on doing a PhD and if doing that would be breaking any of them but if you could i reckon there would be quite a few people, including myself, who would love to read through it.
Solomon Chamberlin my current university has everyone's thesis from the past 10 years on their website for everyone to see, I'd expect Exeter to have something similar
They do I just checked
Jamie Cayley what university? Can you give the website link here?
Hey Simon, I keep seeing Belfast vlog written on the whiteboard on your computer hard drive, is this a vlog yet to be edited, if so any idea when you'll release it? I'm from there and it would be nice to see your perspective on the city.
+Charlie West when I get the green light from the BBC! Ooo mysterious...
When you said you were going to insert clips of you falling over, I thought you meant the same clip, but wow you really were able to film your unfortunate events 👍☺👏
Love you Psy
Wait, you said that your submission date is in 6 weeks. And this was for end of July, so I'm guessing you've submitted?!
In which case, congrats! I'm sure it'll be great catching up on socialising and sleep!
Ayyy ! this was a sick video
I replayed your stumbles so many times
Good luck Simon
Since you're an atmospheric physicist I wished you addressed some of the science behind hurricane Harvey and Irma
If I'd had the time to properly write and shoot a video I would have done it in a heartbeat - unfortunately time is a luxury I just don't have these days!
Good luck on your phd Simon
Hey Simon, a while back you mentioned that you were thinking about doing a sample coding video. I was wondering if you were still doing that or if you already had and I just can't find it. Oh and by the way I love these videos, keep up the good work!
Thanks. Good luck!
Hey simon, I was wondering how do you manage your time? Aka studying, relaxing, all those stuff.
Is that supposed to be Stephen Fry reference at 0:40 ? having listened to Sherlock Holmes narrated by Stephen Fry I find this accent bloody similar.
Omg no way! You are in UniOfExeter???? My brother is there right now! That's cool
With your code issues at the 17 minute mark, are you accessing a file path that contains a folder with a space in its name? Just a thought
simplifying the chapters at the beginning of the vid made feel oh that's easy to do which I am sure its not that easy
You motivate me to study! Thank youuuu!!!
ur vids are so fun!!
Hey can I get tips for the PAT test?
hey, watching you is so amusing! do you know any other youtuber who is also a phd student but works on other fields such as arts or social sciences? I'm seriously thinking about pursuing a phd on photography but the research on the UK it's a little different from where I'm from and I feel a little lost haha.
your makeup is on point.. kinda jelous right now :)
I can't wait until you get your 100,000 subscriber trophy from youtube!
How do u manage both professional and personal life
Poorly.
🙂🙂🙂 same here
Bless this video
any tips for developing analytical framework?
8:47 it seems like Dan is starting to mimic Simon by keeping his top buttons undone
Yeah but the difference is only one of us has a chest worth showing off
do you write your thesis with latex or word
+deathinity latex! Doing it in Word would be torture
How u motivate or inspire yourself for completing the thesis (being consistent)
Well, good luck, sounds like you'll need it.
Do you have a word count that you're aiming for at all or a current word count? We don't do pages here so I've got no clue what that means 🤣
Ok first of all I LOVE YOU AND YOUR CHANNEL
You are my inspiration to study while doing the things I love ( non education related )
do your best and make us all proud🙂🙂🙂
THAT WAS EXACTLY ME AND MY FRIEND AFTER DUNKIRK😂😂 such a masterpiece
Hey Simon, can I just ask what the process was when you were thinking of what to do a PhD in? How did you come up with the topic you're doing now? Love your vlogs, will miss them :O
- a fellow physicist :)
So I applied for a bunch of projects that sounded interesting to me based on my experience of previous research at undergrad and what bits of the physics I liked. As it turns out I ended up at Exeter because the funding opportunities associated with the other projects fell through, so the choice was made for me!
Cheers! Looking forward to the next vlog :)
Is Baby Driver really bad? The only film I wanted to watch this year...
Dan and I thought it under-delivered basically... there's a link to our review in the description!
So what career do you actually wish to do?
What to do, when you feel unmotivated to do anything?
Hi Simon - did you submit? In my second year and :(
Hey Simon, just wondering whether at the end of your PhD your thesis (and code LOL) will be published/uploaded so we can see what you've been working on in it's entirety?
Yep hopefully!
Thanks Simon, i wish to see you seen.
"Short chapter" 10-15 pages im have trouble finishing my college essay
The "leave Brittney alone!" just took me out XD
5:21 what is going on with that keyboard
Do you know what profession you want to pursue?
lol I'm wearing the same shirt right now
Correction: Pressure can be negative in terms of "emotion" of course.
i had my approval from the supervisor so I applied for the PhD and now am anxiously waiting for the decision, while watching these videos and thinking OMG OMG OMG OMG PLEASE LET IT BE haha...
How'd it go?
15:29 is this how gay sex works?
I'm not an expert but I think so yes
What is that keyboard?!?!?
What happened to book club videos Simon ? 😮
I will be doing plenty more, don't worry! Time is very limited at the moment so I have precious little time to read or make videos about what I've been reading, but after I hand in I have big plans :)
I slept in Dunkirk so..
14:09 LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! 10 years old today!
OMG what are the chances!
Is your shipping name Sian or Damon?
1:16 Well, this keyboard might be interesting to use
How long until we see the thesis beard in vlogs?
In the next week's worth of vlogs!
I'm new to this channel.
How old is simon?
+N'niv T he's turning 27 next month!
Oh wow! I never expected you would've replied. You are such an inspirational person and i look up to you as a role model☺
How tall are you?
At 7:06 I thought Simon was being attacked!
Do nooooot underestimate the bibliographyyyyy and references... and spell-checking.
What did you go to school for?
Her voice is echoed in my mind
I count the days til she is mine
Can't tell my friends 'cause they will laugh
I love a member of the staff
Simon Clark huh?
Guys I’m so depressed :( I messed up my college application and can’t fix it
Ah, damn. I was hoping to be the first comment, but someone beat me to it. I am so excited for you to finish your PhD so you have time to so more videos more often. :)
i was the 90.870th subscriber ^-^
And thank you for it :)
You'r my motivation
lol never been so early....now I see the craze for I'm 1st comment...