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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…
- Christine Streeter
- June 11, 2019
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…
- Sungsil Moon
- August 16, 2020
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,…
- TL Jordan
- November 13, 2018
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…
- Delena-Mae Caagbay
- April 22, 2019
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…
- Jeong-In Yun
- May 20, 2020
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…
- Brianna Le Busque
- February 19, 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
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
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.
- Nitibhat Homla-or
- August 10, 2020
At that point, I thought that it was the plateau of my career in terms of the academic profession… but I was wrong.
- Marcelino Lunag Jr
- November 29, 2019