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My transition to graduate school had been rough, both socially and emotionally. I was lonely and distracted. I tried my best to concentrate and study, to put my feelings…
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…
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
I have never done things small. Today, on the brink of turning 32, I am about to have my first baby. And also, today I finally got full IRB approval for my dissertation…
- Katherine Hart
- June 26, 2019
In my second term at Cambridge, one of the trainers in the Researcher Development Programme asked me: “Do you think that you are not smart enough for Cambridge?” Sadly,…
- Hamizah Haji-Haidi
- June 26, 2019
Last week, I had my PhD viva, and I passed! I remember that my emotions were jumbled up at the time, and it just felt very surreal. Now that some time has passed since…
- Hamizah Haji-Haidi
- June 26, 2019
The year 2017 was always going to be a pretty stressful year for me. It symbolised the culmination of four years of hard work, continuous mental angst with the imposter…
- Daniel Morse
- June 26, 2019
I have had a lifelong love affair with math and science. At the end of college, I had no ideas about what to do with my life. I finally found my way to a PhD program. I…
If you’ve ever taken a history class, you know that it entails a lot of reading. And last semester, when I wasn’t reading, I was writing. In those rare moments when I…
- Stefanie Woodard
- June 26, 2019
I’ve been doing my PhD for two months now. I’ve always had a curious personality and I enjoy learning. There’s something exciting about performing research first-hand…