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I really do love what I do! Doing a PhD is amazing. It is hard work, long hours, and you never really switch off – forever thinking, planning, analyzing, dreaming of…

Every now and then, I believe that it is good to look up from the absorbing minutiae of everyday life. And at some point, you may even be surprised to see that the…

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 until I actually saw the…

As motivated as I was last Monday to “get back to the grind,” that sort of fell through. Turns out, sometimes willpower alone isn’t enough when it comes to trying to…

Before I began my postgraduate journey, I thought that pursuing a PhD was all about getting equipped with the skills I needed to do a job or more specifically to be a…

A supervisor let me down spectacularly, and now I feel that my skill set is somewhat lacking. Although I fired this supervisor due to a host of reasons that have…

It has been a whole week since I handed in my PhD thesis! This is a huge milestone for any PhD student and something to be celebrated, to be proud of, and embrace being…

This morning I realized I still feel envious of people in academia. So, I started writing about this feeling and whether it meant I had made the wrong decision by…

I am a bit of a black sheep in the workplace. Since I am the only one with small kids, I cannot go out for drinks or go to nightclubs after work. And because of this,…

Over four years ago, I came home from the hospital one evening, after a day that started with me thinking I was in labor. I wasn’t. Although I was exhausted, I decided…