Re: Any oldtimers still around?

Thirith Dragon wrote:
> > Anyway, I am in the third year of my Phd in History and Philosphy of
> > Science.
<snicker snack>
> Sounds fascinating! How's that PhD going? Getting enough support from
> Uni? I was really lucky in having a supervisor/boss who was very easy
> on me in terms of other work than the thesis. Of course it's a bit odd
> that my supervisor is also my boss, but that's how it generally works
> in Switzerland...

I think in many of the sciences/engineering it is pretty standard for
people to work with their supervisors (judging from
http://www.phdcomics.com ). However, in the humanities this is not as
often the case. My university has guaranteed five years of "funding"
(can include TA and RA assignments or external scholarships) for all
Phd stream students that may cover basic cost of living. It has been my
good luck to receive a large federal government scholarship. Also, due
to generous parental support I was never hard up for cash even in
undergraduate days and have been basically self-suffecient since I
started graduate school (although since my uni is close to home I still
get a lot of emotional and material support from them).

My supervisor has been a bit hands off so far (but he was on leave for
the past 10 months when I have been in the official research/writing
part of my work). I have never worked for him, but if I did it would
probably be as a TA for one of his courses. We will see how things
develop in the next year and a half or so.

> In any case, it's been cool hearing from all of you. I might hang
> around a bit more, but I probably won't have much time to do so once
> term starts. In any case, all the best to the whole scaly lot of you!
> :-)

Well, I hope you get this. Anyway it is great to hear of your success.
Good luck for the future.

Now to violate usenet protocol and respond to someone else's post, thus
destroying proper threading.

Ashikaga the Forcible Masked Drag Racer of Niceness wrote:
> Ah ah! Chengdu is no longer the capital of Sichuan province. Historically
> it was, but after the Nationalist Revolution it is replaced by Chungking.
<snicker snack>

I think it is you who are mistaken! :)

I am checking (via google, my Chinese server does not like wikipedia
for some reason) and it looks like Chongqing was the capital of Sichuan
during the second world war
(http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9106242) but under the People's
Republic the capital has reverted to Cheng Du.

I guess in Taiwan mainland China's history gets less attention after
1948, eh? :)

Interestingly Chongqinq is larger than Cheng Du (but only by a few
hundred thousand), another case of the largest city not being the
capital.
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