Why thenk you Pruni :o. Actually, I fear it is nowhere near as "hard" as maths, say or physics. A bit girly, you know. Actually, I think science PhDs are probably way easier- most people see their supervisors pretty much every day, whereas Arts students seem to manage on once a term quite often. Plus with science the supervisor will mostly have to have got funding in place already, so the gist of it will be planned out.