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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…
As a linguist, I started out as a reluctant fieldworker because of my social anxiety, and I am not built for adventure. But the truth is there is no place I’d rather be.
- Maria Kristina Gallego
- September 2, 2020
I was exhausted, sleep deprived, and often depressed, but I finished my research and made all the amendments requested by my supervisor. Finally, I submitted my research…
- Nehad Soliman
- May 18, 2020
Once, during an intensive two-week field gig, I had a miscarriage. It was not a dramatic one. Just an ordinary ending of a pregnancy in its early stages, the kind women…
My supervisor has been reading and criticizing the statement of the problem for the past session and a half. Whenever I ask him for feedback, he give me his usual…
When I first told my family in the Emirates that I had been accepted to a PhD programme at the University of Cambridge, my father’s bewildered reaction was to…
It would be great to live in a world where your fashion choices didn’t influence what people think about your competence or abilities as a scientist. Sadly, we do not…
- Allison McDonald
- May 6, 2019
Three years into my statistics PhD and I’m finally starting to get a feel for what a ‘typical’ day means for me. My life is currently a balancing act between research,…
- Meridith Bartley
- May 15, 2019
Imagine two instructors sitting around, working on a writing project, talking about students. They have taught so many classes that they have lost count. And they are…
That journey of completing my thesis really taught me a lot. Looking back at that time, I realize I had a belief in my mind that I should not give up, that I needed to…
- Rajat Biswas
- November 26, 2019