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Researchers and Their Stories

I had moved full circle - from the desire to do research, to clinical practice and on to inquiring, exploring and creating a cohesive idea from other people’s research…
Patient management was near to breaking point as residents started demanding necessary PPEs and that COVID019 patients be admitted and accommodated separately, away from…
I sometimes feel it is an unfair game for researchers who are non-native English speakers. People whose native language is English will be in an advantaged since they…
After my last research project, which lasted six and a half years, I started considering science communication as one of my career options. Since research was out of my…
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…
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.
Being “better off” than others does not mean “feeling good”. I still needed to make efforts to preserve my mental health. I thus tried to make up for the lack of social…
It shouldn’t be worse than last year’s two-month-long strike. Our students stood by us back then to defend our rights. Now we should do the same...
These quotidian goals are also a way to challenge myself to listen to others and to read from different perspectives, and offer a chance to reflect on our complicated…
For a while, I felt demotivated thinking about my previous academic accomplishments. But I also knew that getting a PhD degree would help alleviate the sense of failure…