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A few years ago, as part of my professional doctorate, I started a diary about my working life. I turned to my diary when things went wrong. And my diary entries were a…
- Elaine Gregersen
- December 28, 2018
Doing science, as I recall, wasn’t an ordained destiny I wished to pursue. As a kid, I was always driven by curiosity. I asked questions constantly and never held back…
- Angelique Lusan
- December 24, 2018
Two weeks ago, I gave a talk to over 1200 people, and I almost quit a minute before I was on. I panicked. How could I carry that stage and all of those people’s time on…
- Stephany Mazon
- December 19, 2018
After almost four years of struggling, today, I handed in my PhD thesis. In only a few months, I will be a Doctor in Linguistics. But I can’t help but wonder – what have…
- Jolijn Sonnaert
- December 13, 2018
Since starting my PhD, I have found my new ‘pretending to sleep’ trick - which has now become ‘working on my research.’ I’m still pretty keen and motivated and actually…
- Delena-Mae Caagbay
- December 13, 2018
I always knew there was something different about me. I was in 5th grade and I still had problems spelling my name. In exams where I had to write if the answer was “b”…
- Claudia González
- December 13, 2018
Most people only see the published papers and don’t know about the several rejections and revisions leading up to the final publication. So, here, I will give you an…
- Jente Ottenburghs
- December 13, 2018
Before I went back to school, I had a list of things I wanted to do outside of my research. I didn’t want to be one of those people who became so consumed with their…
- Sharon Bolanta
- December 13, 2018
Now that you already know why I became the “Lousy Librarian” in the Twitter-sphere, I’d like to talk about the real world too – where I go through the day-to-day…
The social sciences are often considered irrelevant as a field of study in India. So, when I decided to pursue the social sciences after completing my secondary…
- Arathy Puthillam
- December 11, 2018