In June of 2015, I was on the brink of turning 29 and had just signed all the papers to become the new owner of our little house by the ocean. A week later, I would be Read More
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Now that it’s the start of the new term again, I thought I would write an entry about the impostor syndrome, as it is something that every Cambridge/PhD student would experience at least Read More
So last week on Thursday, I had my PhD viva, and I passed! Yay, alhamdulillah! How do I feel? My emotions were jumbled up then because it just felt very surreal. Now, it is still Read More
The year 2017 was always going to be a pretty stressful year. It symbolised the culmination of four years of hard work; long days, nights, weekends; continuous mental angst with the whole imposter syndrome, and “why Read More
I have a lifelong love affair with math and science. Given my family, my parents took for granted that I would excel in those areas. And excel I did. At the end of college, I Read More
My dear blogging audience, my dedicated readers, and all of you who stumbled across my blog because you ran a Google image search for “Dodge Caravan 1998,” I owe you an apology for disappearing for two-and-a-half Read More
I’ve been doing my PhD for 2 months now, and in this blog, I’ll explain why I chose to embark on a 4-year marathon of research. I would say that I’ve always had Read More
It was seven years ago, when I was first exposed to scientific research as an Honours student in a laboratory led by Ian Dawes. I was amazed by his intelligence and his research – very sophisticated, Read More
Salaam, in the name of God. I wrote bits of this entry quite a while ago. Bits of it were added in yesterday and this morning. Being at the final stages of a PhD means Read More
It wasn’t long ago that I finished my PhD. I vividly remember the moment that the binders handed back my final (not “final” final, just for hand-in) printed and bound version. The feeling of Read More