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After finishing the first year of my PhD program, I spent all summer trying to reflect on what exactly happened. However, I wasn’t able to reflect on what I learned…
Graduate school was a large immediate trigger for resurfacing my depression and anxiety which I had been able to manage for a few years in undergrad. I felt very alone,…
I cannot remember since which spring I was not able to smell the scent of lilac anymore. I guess it was around the time when the smell of acetic acid, which had always…
The past few years have been such a steep learning curve and I look back at my naïve, optimistic first-year self with a little bit of fondness for blindly jumping onto…
After confirming my pregnancy, the first thing I did was to disclose it to my lab supervisor and colleagues. The reason was simple. I am a scientist who conducts…
If you asked me two years ago where I would be now, I never in a million years would have said sitting at my desk every week day reading journal articles and writing a…
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…
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…
But then my way of life was disrupted abruptly and terribly — I suffered a stroke while I was at home, eagerly waiting to start my PhD in the US.
Librarianship was not always my intended career path. My original goal was to pursue a PhD in Social Psychology, but when I wasn’t accepted to a school with funding, I…
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  • October 29, 2018