Working Harder Is Not The Key To Finish Your PhD “I have no idea what I need to do to finish my PhD” “Feeling completely stuck in graduate school! Is it even worth staying?” “I work all the time, but I make no progress on my Dissertation” These are phrases I have heard from PhD […]
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Five Steps to Finish Your Thesis on Time While Enjoying Life
I feel so privileged that I have been invited to Tufts University to present my seminar “Five Steps to Finish Your Thesis on Time While Enjoying Life”. I know that if you are in graduate school, you want to do high quality research while also having time for your friends, family and yourself. I have […]
The Roadmap to Your PhD Thesis
Those of you readers who are trying to write your PhD thesis know what a maize the process can be. At the beginning, while we are taking classes, the path is clear. We need to choose a supervisor, a project, and pass our exams. Once all that is done, however, the “hard” part begins. For […]
Training For Your PhD Thesis Like It is a Marathon
While I was in graduate school, working on my thesis reminded me of training for a race. After all, finishing a thesis requires perseverance, just like a long-distance event. When you train for a race, what do you focus on? Winning of course! Every day while you are training, you visualize yourself crossing the finish […]
Get Your Doctoral Thesis Back on Track After a Long Weekend
While writing my doctoral thesis I remember how much I used to look forward to long weekends; at least the ones where I actually took a well-deserved break. There was one thing, however, that I dreaded: The first workday after the long weekend. It was not just because I missed the weekend. For me the […]
How To Stay Laser-Focused While Writing Thesis
If someone had told me that one day I would write a nearly 200 page doctoral thesis (as well as several scientific publications ), I would have thought they were joking. Writing was not my forte in college. Where do I begin? What should I write about? I always admired writers, and it perhaps for […]