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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Why You Cannot Beat Procrastination With Better Time Management
Being busy doesn’t cure procrastination Did you ever sit down committed to writing something and find yourself staring blankly at the screen an hour later with close to nothing to show for your time?I went through several weeks of “brain fog” when I wrote my first publication, which was a literature review. Weeks went by […]
Setting Up a Schedule That Works
By nature, I am an early morning person. I love to wake up with the sun at dawn and start working between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. Perhaps it is the silence or the lack of interruptions, but I find that my mind is the sharpest during the early morning hours. During my last semester […]