What I did in the year between my Masters and PhD

I took a year out between starting my PhD and finishing my Masters, and have never regretted it. I often get asked on this channel and by other students what I did during that time and how I made the most of it -- here is one year in under six minutes. Summary: June - Got Masters results August - Began Mars mapping job in London September - Began research assistant job in Leicester November - Went home January - Applications due / Attended small planetary science conference March - Interviews April - Began bank job in Bristol July - Bank job ended / Wrote Masters as a paper September - Began PhD! (By the way, it was only after I finished the video that I realised the irony of saying 'I don't like to talk about myself on this channel too much' when this is literally a channel about me talking about my PhD... I meant I don't like to go off memoir-style and talk about intricate details of my life. Just wanted to clarify in case that made anyone roll their eyes(!).) - New video every other, other, other Wednesday (final year PhD student now, the videos are fewer and further between but I am trying). Please comment to suggest a topic relating to postgraduate life that you’d like to see covered, or get in touch: Twitter: @LeKissick Website: lucykissick.co.uk Email: lucykissick.co.uk/contact - Credits music with permission from the incredibly talented post-rockers Silent Island. The song is ‘Dolphin Rush’ and you can find it here on Bandcamp from their album Fall of Oceans: silentisland.bandcamp.com/album/fall-of-oceans - My name is Lucy Kissick and I'm a final-year PhD student at the university of Oxford.

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