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Being a grad student is hard work, being a post-doc is hard work, being a professor is hard work. I remember the constant state of stress, lack of sleep, concerns about…
- Amanda Glaze
- October 31, 2018
Unlike some people, going to the library wasn't something I dreaded. I actually liked it there. It was a haven full of possibilities, and musty smells, and squinty-eyed…
I became pregnant with my son a year and a half into my PhD program on purpose. I say on purpose because one of the more shocking things that happened to me during my…
- Allison McDonald
- May 3, 2019
After my last research project, which lasted six and a half years, I started considering science communication as one of my career options. Since research was out of my…
- Kanaka Ghosalkar
- August 19, 2020
My decision to leave academia was a combination of a very insecure future, the fierce competition of other postdocs, and the feeling that nobody seemed to want to invest…
As a PhD student, I feel like there is always something I should be doing. I should be checking recent literature in my area, writing, analyzing data, or thinking about…
I have written and finally submitted the first draft. But reaching this milestone has meant working every day, for the last month or so at least. Which means I have not…
- Sherran Clarence
- June 10, 2019
Over the last few years, I have wondered several times if my supervisors were ever graduate students at some point in their lives. It doesn’t really feel like it. So I…
These quotidian goals are also a way to challenge myself to listen to others and to read from different perspectives, and offer a chance to reflect on our complicated…
- Agnes Bosanquet
- July 20, 2020
As a linguist, I started out as a reluctant fieldworker because of my social anxiety, and I am not built for adventure. But the truth is there is no place I’d rather be.
- Maria Kristina Gallego
- September 2, 2020