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I completed my PhD very slowly. Here is the short version of a long story. My PhD was poorly planned. I didn’t have a well-defined topic. I worked four days a week in an…
- Agnes Bosanquet
- April 26, 2019
We talk a great deal about mental stress, and even the emotional toll that a PhD process can take on students, but I have not yet seen very much written about the…
- Sherran Clarence
- April 26, 2019
A year ago, I thought I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I had it all planned out. For years I knew what I wanted was to get my PhD, become a professor of…
- Hanna Erickson
- April 26, 2019
They say your first lab rotation in graduate school is the hardest – you’re adjusting from an undergraduate to graduate student, you’re adjusting to potentially a new…
- Hanna Erickson
- April 26, 2019
Scientists at the Aoki Laboratory, headed by Professor Shin Aoki, at Tokyo University of Science have taken a giant leap in the battle against cancer. They have…
- Impact Science
- April 25, 2019
I started my PhD in good health. Several years in, I got ill. A cold morphed into labyrinthitis, which left me with long-term nerve damage in one ear, affecting my…
The second year of my PhD taught me that the 'mid-PhD' lull really exists. It has also suddenly dawned on me that I am actually doing a PhD, something that requires hard…
- Brianna Le Busque
- April 25, 2019
I started writing this story because I wanted to think about why I’m in this career and not a different one. I read an interesting article written by a personal trainer…
- Jennifer M Heemstra
- April 25, 2019
When I first started my PhD two years ago, I heard whispers about a so called “PhD slump.” About how in the middle of the PhD journey, people want to scream, and cry,…
- Brianna Le Busque
- April 25, 2019
The first year of my PhD taught me 7 important lessons. I learned that being passionate about a cause can sometimes be very exhausting, I easily began to understand why…
- Brianna Le Busque
- April 25, 2019