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Let’s face it, grad school is selfish! It’s all consuming. It is a giant monster that bursts into your life and suddenly begins to eat up everything you love as you try…
- Elizabeth Mulherron
- June 20, 2019
Lately I’ve been getting up really early and heading into lab a few hours before I normally would. Aside from the feeling dead part, it’s been pretty great. Having a few…
- Queen of the Bench
- May 22, 2019
I wonder if I’ll always feel anxious, jealous, tired, and insufficient even amid professional success or notable accomplishments. I imagine myself in ten years and am…
- Sarah Daly
- April 19, 2019
Back in school, one Mr. Alan Bootle gave me a very important lesson on believing in myself, having confidence in my abilities, and believing that I am better than I…
- Daniel Morse
- June 20, 2019
Early this morning, I made my way to a school for fieldwork. Only to reach there and wait at the school reception for slightly more than half an hour! I was already…
- Hamizah Haji-Haidi
- May 28, 2019
Quitting academia comes with strong feelings of mourning for me. I am sad about all the cells I will never patch, and about missing the excitement of cutting slices and…
Whilst in some ways I feel I have adjusted a little too well to lockdown life, other aspects are very difficult to get used to. For instance, the passage of time.
- Shruti Turner
- May 29, 2020
You know how they say that after you break up with someone, you need to meet that person again to see if you’re fully over it? Well, two years ago, I broke up with…
- Cleyde Helena
- May 8, 2019
If you look at our nice and shiny research paper, with the blue PNAS logo on the side, slick figures, a list of references, etc., you’d rarely think about all the blood,…
I’m writing in the arid, breezy shade outside my £10-per-night hotel in northeastern Uganda. I’m trying to take a break from PhD life – not really. Being an ethnographer…