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A supervisor let me down spectacularly, and now I feel that my skill set is somewhat lacking. Although I fired this supervisor due to a host of reasons that have…
- Madeleine Kendrick
- June 12, 2019
Before I began my postgraduate journey, I thought that pursuing a PhD was all about getting equipped with the skills I needed to do a job or more specifically to be a…
As motivated as I was last Monday to “get back to the grind,” that sort of fell through. Turns out, sometimes willpower alone isn’t enough when it comes to trying to…
- Anastasia Doronina
- June 12, 2019
After finishing the first year of my PhD program, I spent all summer trying to reflect on what exactly happened. However, I wasn’t able to reflect on what I learned…
- Christine Streeter
- June 11, 2019
Every now and then, I believe that it is good to look up from the absorbing minutiae of everyday life. And at some point, you may even be surprised to see that the track…
I really do love what I do! Doing a PhD is amazing. It is hard work, long hours, and you never really switch off – forever thinking, planning, analyzing, dreaming of the…
- Daniel Morse
- June 11, 2019
During the summer of 2017, I conducted fieldwork in rural Punjab, Pakistan. I have always been conscious of the disadvantage through which people struggle, but as a…
When I meet another person pursuing their PhD, I am almost always tempted to ask them, “So, what brings you here?” This might actually interest me more than their…
Some days I might be knee deep in a marsh, breathing in deeply the weird smell I’ve come to love, thanking my favorite deity, i.e. Mother Nature, that I don’t have a…
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