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The transition from graduate school to semi-professional has been challenging. Although my social life is still vibrant, it doesn’t include as many people as it once did…
When it comes to teaching, I want to be good. No, I want to be great! I want to inspire the same motivation in my students that I received from my own teachers. There's…
- Madeleine Kendrick
- May 28, 2019
I started a full-time, tenure track position, and I felt I couldn’t complain about that much at work, so I turned to Twitter. At the outset, I didn’t expect this to be…
It was the week before Christmas when I had to deal with an academic bombshell. Well, I might be exaggerating a bit, but it surely had many hallmarks of a bombshell:…
- Claire Jarvis
- June 26, 2019
When people say you’ll spend your first few months simply reading…they mean it! You’re not expected to be an expert in the field when you first start your PhD so take…
- Katie Gambier-Ross
- May 3, 2019
My week started off with a trip to the ultrasound place. The moment the nurse put the wand onto my stomach, we looked up and saw that we were going to have a baby boy –…
- Katherine Hart
- May 16, 2019
I couldn’t have asked for a better first week of fieldwork. However, it sure has been a roller coaster of emotions. The landscape here is tough. And by tough I mean a…
- Katherine Mullin
- September 25, 2019
Last week, I finished the final data collection for my PhD. It’s now occurred to me that I might be stressed about this. I could be stressed because I’ve never done…
- Bronwyn Swartz
- June 4, 2019
I think that PhDs are funny things. You have a lot more time than you think, but also less time than you thought. It takes a long while to adjust to this concept, and to…
- Anastasia Doronina
- June 5, 2019
You don’t belong here. You aren’t this smart. You will flounder. You aren’t as good as your application says. Your advisor probably thinks they made a mistake. You’re…
- PhDoing Life
- May 21, 2019