
{"id":2689,"date":"2019-05-22T11:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T11:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/knowing-when-to-let-go\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T06:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T06:35:11","slug":"knowing-when-to-let-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/knowing-when-to-let-go","title":{"rendered":"Knowing when to let go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I have spent the last two weeks residing in the wonderful city of Durham where I was lucky enough to spend four years of my life completing first a BSc and then an MRes. Now living in Oxford and working in an entirely different area of structural geology, it would be a fair question to ask why I was located so far away from my usual home of the Oxford Earth Sciences department basement.\u00a0Indeed, the beginning of January brings some important deadlines for second year PhD students \u2013 including the feared transfer of status interview which I am yet to complete.\u00a0Although being called both \u201cflower\u201d and \u201cpet\u201d in the same sentence is a pull in itself &#8211; my real excuse to return to the North was to complete some experiments related to the final months of my MRes project.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The universe telling me that it is time to let go of Durham\" class=\"center\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228326%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22The%20universe%20telling%20me%20that%20it%20is%20time%20to%20let%20go%20of%20Durham%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22The%20universe%20telling%20me%20that%20it%20is%20time%20to%20let%20go%20of%20Durham%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Knowing%20when%20to%20let%20go%201.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"The universe telling me that it is time to let go of Durham\" \/><br \/><strong><em>The universe telling me that it is time to let go of Durham<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">The question is \u2013 is this work a valid use of my time? Although extremely interesting, these experiments will take up no place in my PhD thesis. They are an isolated project which will require additional work when back in Oxford, consuming either my personal or PhD time. I have been told by many people that I shouldn\u2019t be going, that I\u2019m being paid to do a PhD and that\u2019s all I should commit to. Forget outreach, forget demonstrating or teaching \u2013 unless you are directly getting something out of it, then don\u2019t waste your time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">But I politely disagree.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A colleague and I snapped teaching people about Pangea at the Oxfordshire Science Festival\" class=\"center\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228327%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22A%20colleague%20and%20I%20snapped%20teaching%20people%20about%20Pangea%20at%20the%20Oxfordshire%20Science%20Festival%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22A%20colleague%20and%20I%20snapped%20teaching%20people%20about%20Pangea%20at%20the%20Oxfordshire%20Science%20Festival%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Knowing%20when%20to%20let%20go%202.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"A colleague and I snapped teaching people about Pangea at the Oxfordshire Science Festival\" \/><br \/><em><strong>A colleague and I snapped teaching people about Pangea at the Oxfordshire Science Festival<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">As young career scientists we are essentially at the whims of our superiors. Not quite to the extent of \u2018when they say \u201cjump\u201d we say \u201chow high?\u201d\u2019 but along the lines of \u2018if you scratch my back then I\u2019ll scratch yours.\u2019 I am an advocate of this mantra. One just has to look back at the classic film \u2018<i>Pay it Forward<\/i>\u2019 to see the effects of giving a helping hand to someone who needs one. As I\u2019ve learned concepts and procedures during the first year of my PhD, my supervisors have asked me to step in and help out \u2013 which seems to me to be the natural order of things.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">But there is a danger; what may well indeed be a great career opportunity to you is also free labour for those above you. The temptation to just do a little more to give your project the extra edge is a hard one to ignore. \u201cIf I did one more experiment\u2026 if I only read one more paper\u2026 if I only went to one more conference\u2026\u201d Final year PhD students are particularly susceptible to this and I too was drawn into temptation by the end of my Master\u2019s (case and point, I\u2019m back now). My old supervisor once described me as having completed half a PhD within a year, but this was very much at the expense of my happiness and mental health. Only now, a year on, do I truly love research in the way that I used to?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The fallen warriors of saw cut sample preparation\" class=\"center\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228328%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22The%20fallen%20warriors%20of%20saw%20cut%20sample%20preparation%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22The%20fallen%20warriors%20of%20saw%20cut%20sample%20preparation%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Knowing%20when%20to%20let%20go%203.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"The fallen warriors of saw cut sample preparation\" \/><br \/><em><strong>The fallen warriors of saw cut sample preparation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">For those of you mad enough to do a PhD, I have some advice: knowing when to let go is important, but knowing when to say yes is also important. Doing favors for people, going the extra mile, helping someone else, all these things may lead to connections and conversations that help you further down the line. Finishing on time is important, both financially and mentally, but so is taking opportunities, meeting people and networking. \u00a0My return to Durham may be partly due to nostalgia \u2013 but is it such a bad thing to be strengthening relationships with academics at institutions other than my own? I\u2019ve been able to maintain an understanding outside my research field, present my current work at a lunchtime seminar, and (hopefully) will get a paper out of the experiments I\u2019ve conducted here.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Things I have blanked out of my memory \u2013 how cold it is up North in winter\" class=\"center\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228329%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Things%20I%20have%20blanked%20out%20of%20my%20memory%20%E2%80%93%20how%20cold%20it%20is%20up%20North%20in%20winter%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Things%20I%20have%20blanked%20out%20of%20my%20memory%20%E2%80%93%20how%20cold%20it%20is%20up%20North%20in%20winter%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Knowing%20when%20to%20let%20go%204.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"Things I have blanked out of my memory \u2013 how cold it is up North in winter\" \/><br \/><em><strong>Things I have blanked out of my memory \u2013 how cold it is up North in winter\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">So yes, I may have some emotional reasons pulling me back to Durham; there are certainly only a few places that I would spend two weeks living in thermals for! There\u2019s a part of me that finds it hard to let go, from the place, the people, and the unanswered questions of my research Master\u2019s. But, at the end of the day, research is fun, so what\u2019s so wrong with that?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Rellie Goddard is a first year PhD student, researching the partition of stress in multi-mineral rocks. This story was published on February 8, 2018,<\/i> <i>on the blog <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/evidentlyscientifical.wordpress.com\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\"><i>Evidently Scientifical<\/i><\/a><i> (available <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/evidentlyscientifical.wordpress.com\/2018\/02\/08\/knowing-when-to-let-go\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>) and has been republished here with permission.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent the last two weeks residing in the wonderful city of Durham where I was lucky enough to spend four years of my life completing first a BSc and then an MRes. 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