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I'd like to start with a confession: I didn’t write the Most Awesome Thesis Ever Written, even though I wanted to. I got some things wrong in my thesis, and I didn’t…
- Sherran Clarence
- June 5, 2019
Recently I found that the more data I’m collecting for my project, the more ‘wrong’ my hypothesis is looking. And when I say ‘wrong,’ I mean we were completely on the…
- Madeleine Kendrick
- June 5, 2019
The time during my fieldwork was both the best and the worst times of my academic journey. I also learned several lessons along the way. To rekindle my own passion for…
- Hamizah Haji-Haidi
- June 5, 2019
I finally finished the corrections to my final draft and got the thumbs up from my supervisor. Every postgrad student will agree - this is a really painful experience. I…
- Bronwyn Swartz
- June 5, 2019
I think that PhDs are funny things. You have a lot more time than you think, but also less time than you thought. It takes a long while to adjust to this concept, and to…
- Anastasia Doronina
- June 5, 2019
When I started graduate school, the Director of Graduate Studies explained to me and my fellow first-years that the key determinant of PhD success is not brain power but…
- Stefanie Woodard
- June 5, 2019
6 years is a long time. In 6 years, a newborn becomes a first grader; Jupiter travels halfway around the sun; World War II began and ended. And after 6 years, I am still…
- Stefanie Woodard
- June 5, 2019
I’ve come to realize recently, that in the course of a 3 to 4 year PhD, perfection is out of the question. Not because I’m being pessimistic, but because I’m working on…
- Shruti Turner
- June 4, 2019
Since I began my PhD program, my weekdays have remained pretty consistent: class, lab, and then time at home. But my days are often interrupted with hiccups that single…
In June 2017, I travelled to Bulgaria and Romania to collect samples for my PhD. A month earlier, I drove almost 1300 km across both countries in search of a perfect…