Warning: This post might be a rant, angry, and disillusioned. For your reading, the most “ranty” and disillusioned bits are in italics, so you can choose to skip those, or decide to only read those Read More
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Well, I’m one of the few people who have been unfortunate enough to have to change my supervisory teams. Partially because one of my supervisors left the university, but also because I required a Read More
I am going to cover the following three topics here: Trying to continue work and life as normal while going through PMS/being on your period. Why does it feel like time flies as you Read More
If I were to honestly describe how I feel most days presently, it’d be overwhelmed, achy, exhausted, and as if my head is about to explode at all times. At the end of each Read More
I’m Sipho Patrick Mabusela, a Master’s student in Poultry Nutrition at the University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. My research focuses on the use of unconventional plant protein sources Read More
So I have entered week 4 of the PhD, and I think that from now on this is how I will format my posts, by week and day number; unless there are some bonus ones of Read More
I am incredibly lucky. Let’s put that first, because I’m very aware that this is the case: not only do I get paid for doing what I love, but every day I get Read More
Believe it or not, but for the first 11 weeks of my PhD, I didn’t spend any time working in the office. I guess changing cities, homes, and lifestyles was, and still is, extremely overwhelming Read More
This morning, I went for a run before work and listened to this week’s Recovering Academic podcast. In this episode, they talked about how a large part of being an academic in recovery means Read More
It was 8.30pm. I was sitting on a stone bench on Princes Street Mall, Edinburgh. I had a large 50-litre rucksack and smaller wheeled luggage at my feet. I’d eaten dinner at one of Read More
