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  1. I haven't yet but I have a plan this summer that I would like to try out. Basically going to to gym in the middle of the afternoon on particularly hot days. I get too hot to focus pretty easily, I'm usually most sleepy that time of day anyway, and I assume the gym's air conditioned so I think it would work. Shouldn't be full of students over the summer either.
  2. Late as well, but I'm going to largely echo what pterosaur says. But take this post with a grain of salt, as my knowledge of US-style PhDs comes only from forums like this one. These CDT / DTP PhD's are really not much different from traditional UK PhDs when compared to American ones. They are still completed in 3-4 years, rather than 5+, and there is no requirement for students to teach undergraduate classes as they are fully funded. As far as I can see, these are two of the three biggest differences between UK and US, and they are still the case with DTPs. The main way they come closer to a US-style PhD is in lab rotations, but these are one year at the most, whereas in a US PhD, one year seems to be the minimum. There's quite a lot of variation between programs though (I think for the NERC London DTP you decide on your main project by Christmas of the first year, whereas in the SouthWest BBSRC DTP you do two 6-month rotations), so some are not really very similar to US-style rotations. I don't think that even some of the integrated masters programmes are all that different from traditional PhDs. For examplet, for the Imperial MRes+PhD adverts I've seen, candidates are picked for the specific, advertised PhD project and therefore spend the whole MRes doing a prelininary project with the same supervisor. So it still doesn't offer the lab rotations or broad learning that seems typical of American PhDs. You don't even need to do coursework or exams during some MRes Masters. Finally, there's going to be little comprehensive data on how well these programmes are received in the US because of how recent they are. I think there are only two (possibly three) graduated cohorts so far.
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