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In our careers, we often carry around burdens that slow us down, but we keep carrying them because they’re not quite heavy enough to get our attention. And, one of the…
- Jennifer M Heemstra
- April 25, 2019
When I first starting blogging, I wrote a post about why I chose to start a PhD. I wrote this post when I was 6 months into my PhD and in the proposal stage of my…
- Brianna Le Busque
- April 25, 2019
Marriage is a constant learning experience. And so is life! One thing I love about my career is that I am constantly learning something new and look forward to that…
- Melissa Cristina Márquez
- April 25, 2019
I have multiple sclerosis, as a result of which I’m constantly in pain and experience deep fatigue. People in my life have told me to forget my PhD, to change careers,…
Teaching a grad class was SO WEIRD. Fun at times, but weird. So often I felt a little out of body about being a professor, teaching a GRAD CLASS, marvelling that it…
Earlier, if you'd asked me what I was doing with my life, I would proudly say I was hoping to get my PhD in Marine Biology. But hundreds of thousands of students embark…
- Melissa Cristina Márquez
- April 23, 2019
After more than four years of hard work, I finally obtained my PhD. On December 8th, 2016, at 11.00 am, I successfully defended my thesis. The thesis committee rated my…
- Jente Ottenburghs
- April 23, 2019
On the first day of class, I admitted to my senior seminar students that I was running something of an experiment with them - we were going to negotiate the…
Upon reflection of my research study I found myself starting to question every decision made. This microscopic scrutinisation effortlessly highlighted every flaw,…
- Delena-Mae Caagbay
- April 22, 2019
The past few years have been such a steep learning curve and I look back at my naïve, optimistic first-year self with a little bit of fondness for blindly jumping onto…
- Delena-Mae Caagbay
- April 22, 2019