Life at the 900-Year-Old University (Ep. 108)

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Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Work Smart, Career, Class, Productivity, Lifehacking, Learning, Business, College, Education, Lifestyle Design, Personal Branding, 101, University

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2016

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is a conversation with my friend Simon Clark - we cover what student life is like at Oxford University, the workload of a PhD student, and more. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Simon's YouTube channel Follow Simon on Twitter Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Paradise Lost Crash Course on Atmospheric Physics PhD Watch Jake Wright OxVlog project Simon's Goodreads My Goodreads A History of the World in 6 Glasses Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey it's Thomas Frank. I've just got a quick note for you before we get into the show.
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0:34.0	Hey what's going on everybody.
0:40.0	You are listening to the College Info Geek Podcast.
0:42.0	My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps
0:44.3	you become a more effective student. And I gotta warn you up front, this is one of those episodes
0:49.6	where the title only refers to a small part of the episode. It is the majority of kind of the meat in this episode, but it is only a small part and that is because I'm having a conversation with my friend Simon Clark, who is one of my
1:03.6	Youtuber friends and he's also a PhD student in atmospheric physics over at
1:07.8	the University of Exeter in the UK and Simon is one of those people who I can't seem to have a short conversation with.
1:16.2	Every time we talk, we end up talking for multiple hours at a time. No matter what I tried to do, it ends
1:22.1	up happening, It's inevitable.
1:23.4	And this episode is no different. So fair warning.
1:26.9	We go through a lot of topics in this episode and it honestly starts off with a bunch of
1:30.8	octopic stuff. We talk about camera gear and
1:33.1	Pokemon and all sorts of stuff that maybe you might be interested to listen to. But
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