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When it comes to writing a research proposal, an assignment, or an academic paper, you tend to worry: you wonder whether you are making errors of spelling, grammar,…
- Yateendra Joshi
- May 21, 2019
The highlight of my experience at the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology Community Education Program was inspiring the next generation to be stewards of the land and…
- Lyndsey Tanabe
- May 21, 2019
I began my doctoral comprehensive exam last week. I am ready to be a doctor and move on from life in the classroom. However, it doesn’t seem like this is going to be the…
- Katherine Hart
- May 21, 2019
I’m nearly two months into my PhD in a new university, in a new city. So you would think I’d be getting settled right about now. At least I would think I should at least…
- Shruti Turner
- May 21, 2019
There wasn’t any doubt that I would go to college one day. Learning was my passion. I could see right in front of me just how much more difficult life is for those who…
I’ll be leaving university with a PhD by December, and right now I feel like a falling cat. I’m hurtling towards the defense date trying to reconfigure myself in mid-air…
- Claire Jarvis
- May 21, 2019
There is an old adage in science - you will fail far more than you will succeed. And although it’s something I’ve begrudgingly come to accept throughout my time as a…
In exactly a week, I will be back at work and someone other than me is going to take care of my little rascals. I am not worried about my 4 year old, who has already…
I was dismissed from my PhD program at the end of my second year. Around the same time, my then-husband and I separated and eventually divorced, my dog died, and my…
- PhDoing Life
- May 21, 2019
You don’t belong here. You aren’t this smart. You will flounder. You aren’t as good as your application says. Your advisor probably thinks they made a mistake. You’re…
- PhDoing Life
- May 21, 2019