i vlogged the entire final year of my PhD

THIS is the sort of videos that i dream of finding thank you so much for this and congrats!!

He handsome for an English man you know what I mean

Simon, your videos got me through university...

I was doing a Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering (that I now teach, more on that later).
And I had no idea at the time you had ADHD.... and at the same time I had no idea I MYSELF had ADHD either.

Without your videos, literally this 11 hour snippet of your life... I would of likely failed. You were on when i was doing assignments, doing hard revision, and even when i was making rewrites of content that people were struggling to understand the original lecture slides / notes.

To find out after the fact, years later, that you went through the same stuff I did? I wanted to go out of my way to say that mate, you made a real big difference in my life.

University was hell, and you were a big factor in dragging me through even the worst of it...

That said, when I started teaching, i made a promise to myself...

"Never again..."

Never again would a student have to feel the way I did during my university days, not if I had a way to help!

Your drive helped me appreciate how important that support is, how important self-care is, and how there isnt anything better than the joy of seeing others succeed.

So erm... yeah... thank you 🫂

Class, in the final year of my PhD now. Watched these when I started, 4 years ago. Hopefully full circle in a years time! The stop being a little bitch and write your thesis hits hard man.

As a fellow physics PhD student who binged these before starting and has continued to do so for 'motivation' (/a reminder that we all suffer), having them all in one video is going to be a wild ride

My thoughts……..’oh no!! Simon ACTUALLY compiled all his PhD vlogs into one BIG vlog 😮’ sighs ‘it’s a bloody rerun!!!!’

But watched it all!!! ….. again!!! … like the first time but more crammed in!!!’ 😂 Honestly Simon!!!

It was worth it. Hats off to you again for the PhD, the laughter (with you that is!! You are are funny guy!!), and for giving me the motivation for study back then!! Not a PhD but a MSc!! Thanks for sharing your journey, it was great to watch and I do continue to watch to today (including an interesting book of which I had no understanding of but did enjoy 😅) Thanks again and congratulations… 🎉 ….again!!!

You speak a lot, way too fast. Ain't too much lonely?
I am interested. I will be your companion.
And don't think me being a girl, neither gay
P.S. I hope they don't censorit.

Bro le me in your group.

don't judge me on looks, I will improve😂😊

oh let's see you have commands🖖

do you lego I have one set. Test my patience

For a moment someone you dating?

fantastic. A video I can watch to procras- I mean, motivate me to study.

I saw your face and I instantly subscribed. Good Lord.

im about to start my maths and physics bsc at exeter, im literally simon clark fr (ik he didnt go there for his undergrad whatever 💀)

Downloaded your personality and how you take on problems head on. I'm well on my way to ace my career goals getting my masters. Eventually building a cloud based operating system and building Animation software with AI tools at your disposal.

This would take awhile to upload haha

Was was he studying?

I'm a biology student but I think physics students are cool

He uploaded his Day in the Life of an Oxford Student video when I was in primary school and now I’m in my final year of university and he’s still in the further education system.

Simon, I know you likely won't see this and its a whole lot of words but....your PhD vlogs were the reason I started vlogging in 2019 and have continued well into my PhD five years later. The wit, drive, and honesty were what drew me to your content, despite being in an entirely different field of study (legal history) and I just want to say thank you! Thank you for paving the way and giving us all someone to look up to and admire that was human and real throughout all of it. It has meant so much to me and I am so happy to see this video on your channel :)

Idk if ur gonna see this but I want u to know that this was one of the best things I've watched in a long time. It was perfect entertainment and just something really nice to have in the background. I never thought I would be this interested in someone life nor did I think I would be rooting for someone this much. Well done!!!

You finished a year in 11hours and 31minutes?

I remember watching these videos as they were released years ago. They taught me the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance, which was invaluable while I was writing my undergraduate thesis. Juggling a full course load, making progress on my thesis, and still finding time to enjoy life required a lot of discipline. At the same time, learning to step away and recharge was just as crucial. Thank you so much, Simon, for this extended version -- it really brings back fond memories :)

these are weirdly inspirational when i am in avoidance mode because my code is 'misbehaving'. Looking at him struggling with the same things and persevering is pushing me to work TT

Thank youuu

I thought this was 11 minutes 😳

Started watching the channel in 2015, congratulations on all of the hard work. Made me nostalgic for where I was watching these every week

I saw PhD in Atmospheric Physics and GASPED. I took one basic Atmospheric Physics class and it was harder than Quantum, I honestly don't know how you do it but kudos!

mad respect

I remember watching these videos back when they were uploaded! I’m now 2,5 hours in and loving it so far!

I am so about to binge watch this

11hrs of someone suffering in school. Sign me up!

Watching this made me miss my undergrad years... life was much simpler back then.

I used these videos to remind myself that someone else has to do work along with me 😊

with each "i will fix this. i will." i felt the doubt creep in

these vlogs aren't why i'm a phd student because i'm, uh, not, but they ARE the reason that i knew that i could be a choral scholar as a student during my master's. i had always associated church choirs of that sort with small kids rather than university students. (that or four ladies from the WI and somebody's husband who clearly doesn't really want to be there, as was the case for my local church at home.)

Hey,
I'm currently reading your thesis now (I'm in the early stages), and I think a collaboration would be great!
My thesis pertains to the quantification and attribution of uncertainty in future coastal risk in which I developed a new measure that quantifies the uncertainty of combined model features' contribution to model output uncertainty. I believe it would be interesting to see how stratospheric and tropospheric dynamics interact and how they interact as our climate is changing, as a result of increases in heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
Just a passing thought.
Best,

Dwight D.

do u use latex for writing your document?

I remember watching all these videos back when they were coming out, hyping myself up to study, now im data engineer without a degree after 7 years of university :) funny how life goes

your final year of your PhD study was only 11 hours 30 minutes and 56 seconds long? CRAZY

Been following since your last year of PhD. And wow, what an amazing LIFE! Pixel girl and you are incredible people.

I CAN'T WAIT to become a PhD student🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

So basically he spent half the phd debugging a code untill it gave the exact expected result at the end. I am really wondering if he didn t overfit the code or some like that

viewer retention goes crazy

I started watching this vlog to get a sense of what the Exeter campus and life is like, as I’m considering a masters there.

11.5 hours later (watched over the course of a whole academic semester), I feel truly inspired to take on whatever the next challenge is in my life.

Thank you Simon :)