UPDATED: Wednesday, 11 January, 2023 2:30 PM EDT (North America) 18:30 GMT Hi Phriends, The PhinisheD discussion board is offline and will remain so for quite some time. However, we have good news: Our moderators group is ready to welcome PhinisheD members to our Discord site! If you would like to get back together with your phriends, please rejoin the group at Discord. Some rules to keep in mind: You must be a PhinisheD member in order to be given access to the chatroom. This helps make sure that this is a safe place for all PhinisheD members. When joining, please change your nickname on Discord to your PhinisheD username. This allows everyone to keep track of who is online and interacting. If you do not know how to change your nickname on Discord, please see the FAQ of our Discord server. Once you register, an admin might reach out to you through private message to confirm that you are a member on PhinisheD. Please review the About PhinisheD page, to get a sense of the environment and goals of Phinished. Please also carefully review the PhinisheD Acceptable Use Policy and Privacy statement, since the rules of acceptable behaviour apply here as well. Please have your status set to either 'Online', 'Idle' or 'Do not disturb', but not 'Invisible', in order to access the main chat channels. This is to ensure everyone's privacy. We ask that you log off or close your browser window when you are done for the day. We ask that you do this out of courtesy for others so that there are no "ghosts" (names of people who are not really there) and no confusion about who is around. If you agree to these rules and you have reviewed the About and Policy pages, you may join the PhinisheD Discord group at https://discord.gg/HXzKwMdjRX (NOTE: this link as been updated as of January 11, 2023) Thanks for your patience, and once again, I apologize for the unprecedented interruption in service. Please check back here regularly for status updates. Warmest regards,      Tom      PhinisheD Webmaster

* This discussion and support group is for you if:

• You are sick to death of people asking you "How is your dissertation [or thesis] coming?" (but you really would like to talk about your troubles in finishing -- with anybody except those who keep asking, no matter how genuinely concerned they may be, or may seem to be).
• You have vague fears about finishing, but don't feel you have a safe outlet for discussing whatever it is you seem to be afraid of.
• You're having organizational problems or blocks.
• You are not getting the kind of support you need -- from your university, your employer, your family members or friends. Maybe you don't even know what kind of support you need, just that you don't have it!
• Face-to-face support groups offered by your university don't suit you, for whatever reason
• You've been in this stagnant state of incompletion, and want to help those still plugging, or flailing.

And it might be for you if:

• You are thinking about pursuing a graduate degree, a novice graduate student considering thesis or dissertation topics, an undergrad thesis writer, or another type of student or writer staring up a mountain that seems to touch the moon. If you can cull something from the discussion here, good, but the board's focus will hover tightly around graduate students writing theses and dissertations, who seem to possess some singular needs and fears.
• You are a family member or SO who wants to try to understand the pressures.

Please be advised that the PhinisheD bulletin boards have a strict no-spam policy. Blatant advertisements, sales pitches, get-rich-quick schemes, and other messages of a purely commercial nature are not allowed and will be deleted immediately. If you have a service you think may be of particular interest to graduate students, feel free to submit your website to our Links directory.