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Shruti Turner

PhD researcher, Imperial College London

PhD Researcher, Imperial College London, having previously done an MSc Biomedical Engineering and BEng Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Southampton

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COVID-19: Time is so arbitrary

Whilst in some ways I feel I have adjusted a little too well to lockdown life, other aspects are very difficult to get used to. For instance, the passage of time.

Striving for progress, not perfection

I’ve come to realize recently, that in the course of a 3 to 4 year PhD, perfection is out of the question. Not because I’m being pessimistic, but because I’m working on a project that is really still in its infancy, and trying to aim for perfection at this stage would be a fruitless task. How can we achieve perfection without first understanding?

PhD life is like studying the dark arts

No, I don’t mean that PhD life and research are the spawn of evil and researchers are like Death Eaters using their skills to destroy the world as we know it. What I mean, is that doing a PhD is not certain – a PhD is an ever-changing and complex thing, where you need to be able to think on your feet to adapt and respond to the situations that arise.

And I fight to live another PhD day

I had the viva part of my Early Stage Assessment yesterday and I’m relieved to say that I passed. Everyone was telling me that no one fails and it’d be fine, that I’d breeze through it, but somehow that made things worse. It kind of escalated the pressure, because what if I was that bad that I didn’t “breeze through?”

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