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I wanted to write about my experience of simlutaneously being a PhD student and a parent. There are sacfricies - my children and partner see a little less of me but I am…
When people asked me about my career goals, I would lie and say “I don’t know.” But that wasn’t my story. I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I desperately wanted to be…
- Jennifer M Heemstra
- February 4, 2019
I am on Day 26 of continuous writing, with no respite. That, and in my ‘spare time,’ I’m undertaking another research job and grappling with a different university’s…
- Kim Goodwin
- January 31, 2019
Like many others who have traversed academia before me, my journey includes a lot of grappling with my own mental health. It is no secret that life as a graduate student…
I am disabled, aren’t I? I was partially paralyzed for most of my childhood. I was infected with poliomyelitis when I was just one year old. Luckily for me, I recovered…
My PhD is now completely wrapped up, and I can officially use the title Dr., so I get very excited about filling in forms. A postdoc is far more relaxing than a PhD, and…
- Kaitlin Naughten
- January 17, 2019
I feel that academic life is notoriously insecure. It seems like we’re constantly scrambling for grant funding, pushing manuscripts through the arduous process of peer…
- Heidi Gardner
- January 15, 2019
I’ve been slowly writing bits and pieces of my dissertation for well over a year. While that might seem like a long time, it was mostly half an hour every morning before…
- Ondrej Cernotik
- January 14, 2019
Waking up at 5:30am every day and working sometimes 10 hours at a job I wasn't even passionate about was not working out for me and I wanted a change. My goal…
- Melissa Cristina Márquez
- January 11, 2019
I am not someone who needs to be surrounded by people. So last year when I applied to be on a professional doctorate programme, I wasn’t troubled when family and friends…
- Elaine Gregersen
- January 8, 2019