Today’s article is brought to you by Dr. Amie Lennox, a social anthropologist, writer, researcher, and former lecturer, who will give us an introduction to the Thinkladder app, and how it can help you get to the finish line of your PhD. This article and the Thinkladder app are not substitutes for professional medical help. […]
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Does Guilt or Shame Ever Creep Up When You Meet With Your Thesis Advisor?
How Do You Get On the Same Page As Your Thesis Advisor? I was in the beginning of my sixth year in grad school, which I really hoped would be my last. I felt my stomach sink as my thesis advisor and I reviewed my latest results. Once again, my experimental setup had failed […]
You Don’t Have to Be Miserable While You Write Your Dissertation
Don’t Do This Unless Your Dissertation is About Strawberry Jam The sweet and tart scent of home-made strawberry jam filled the air in the kitchen of the small rustic cottage. Nearly 60 jars of fresh strawberry jams decorated with red laced covers lined the dining table and Silvi’s family was looking ahead to a profitable day […]
Are You Creating Your Own Burnout in Grad School?
You might be creating your own grad school burnout if you try to be “too productive” “I want to be more productive, but I just keep disappointing myself. It’s like I am always going through a burn out and then getting distracted and procrastinating.” Sheila was in her 10th year of graduate school, and she really […]
These Common Mistakes Can Keep You Stuck in Graduate School for an Extra 12 Months
How Could You Be Stuck in Graduate School When You Did Everything Right? “I can’t take graduate school anymore,” Rachel said packing up her bag to go home. ” I have been working for him for over 6 years and I just lost a job offer because he says I am not “ready” to […]
Writing a PhD Thesis in Half the Time When You Don’t Know Where to Start
Does Writing a PhD Thesis Have to Be Painful? “Writing a thesis is probably so stressful,” said the kind doctor at the emergency room, as he examined my elbows throbbing with pain. “You may be able to avoid surgery because you are young”, I heard him say, “but if I were you I would strongly […]
10 Surprising Time Management Strategies To Help You Graduate
If I Had Known Just Half Of These Time Management Strategies I Could Have Graduated a Year Sooner I made the same mistake as most of my peers in graduate school: I was an overachiever. While I did not realize this at the time, being an overachiever led to poor time management and reduced […]
What you don’t know about academic publishing is keeping you stuck
Why is academic publishing so intimidating? “We’ve got a paper here,” my PhD supervisor told one of my peers as they were looking through the data. I was happy for my friend that he got to publish his research: his third paper since he started his PhD program less than 4 years earlier. I […]
How To Write Your Dissertation and Journal Article At the Same Time
Which Comes First? Your Dissertation or a Journal Article? In my last year of graduate school I was struggling with the same thing as many other PhD students: I was eager to publish, but I wasn’t sure how publishing would fit into the “big picture” of getting a PhD and moving onto a new job. […]
How to finish your literature review when you can’t stop reading articles
The Literature Review Dilemma: Read or Write? “You should read at least 200 articles for this literature review,” my professor said when he gave us an assignment to prepare us for writing our Dissertation. I was a first year graduate student, and I took his advice too literally. I typed in the keywords into the search […]