You Can Finish Your Thesis Even When You Are Spread Really Thin… Boom! Everything went black for a few seconds… What happened? When I opened my eyes I was lying on my back on top of a fresh pile of snow. It was almost 9 pm and I must have slipped and fell on an ice […]
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How to Finish Your Thesis a Few Minutes at a Time
Sometimes A Few Minutes is All You Have to Finish Your Thesis and (Finally) Get Your PhD Is it possible to finish your thesis a few minutes at a time? It was certainly not something I had planned. I had envisioned sitting in front of the computer for many hours typing incessantly until my thesis was […]
7 Rules You Must Violate to Finish Writing Your Thesis
Why I Had to Unlearn Everything From the 7th Grade to Finish Writing My Thesis Writing my thesis challenged everything I had learned about proper English writing. My first real writing assignment in 7th grade was to write a report about my favorite book that I read during the summer. Our teacher, Ms. P, was […]
I Was Stressed and Burned Out…but, this is How I Finished My Thesis by Working Fewer Hours
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey Why did I have to reduce my work hours to finish my thesis? I cut down on the number of hours I worked in the beginning of my sixth (and last) year of graduate school. I […]
Five Steps To Writing an Outstanding PhD Thesis Proposal
Your Thesis Proposal Isn’t Just About Getting Your Degree I remember the time that I was in the process of writing a thesis proposal in my second year of graduate school. It had to be 10-20 pages long, which was short compared to the length of the actual doctoral dissertation (close to 200 pages). Yet, […]
How to Stay Focused on Your Thesis When You Just Wanna Finish Grad School
I was back to square one in the beginning of my sixth year in graduate school. After a 2 hour discussion, my three committee members concluded that about 80% of the data I had generated up to that point was not suitable for my thesis. Several of my cell cultures had been contaminated with yeast which compromised […]