A few weeks ago, I set up a question poll on Instagram and asked people to state their assumptions about me and/or my PhD journey…. “Your PhD journey feels like a duck on a pond. Calm to the eye, frantic below the surface” This is 100% true. I know that the person who wrote this also has a PhD, […]
You can actually get a lot done in a short period of time- Before I started working full time, I would be in my office for 9+ hours a day. Although in the last year or so I was definitely procrastinating less, I still found that I wasn’t being super productive. Now I get almost the same amount of work […]
Early Career Researchers often have a lot going on, between researching, teaching, and administration. There are a few lists ECRs should be keeping and continually adding too. Keeping the lists on Google Docs (or equivalent) means that they are always accessible. A list of research ideas- Research ideas can come to you at the strangest times. Jot down any idea […]
If you find yourself in a similar position to where I was in the last year of my PhD. Where you are a PhD student looking to get out of academia (even for a little while) and into the industry, then you may be struggling with your CV. It is hard to know what skills you have learnt through your […]
It is a reasonably odd feeling, when something that took up so much of your life is over. A PhD creeps its way into every nook and cranny of your being. It crowds relationships, puts plans on hold, judges when you are watching TV, interrupts all conversations, creeps into dreams, and of course cements itself on your LinkedIn and other […]
*I originally wrote this post in the last year of my PhD* I have had notes for this blog post for a few months now, I just couldn’t work out how to write it in a way that would do the topic justice. I wanted to write about this topic when I was in an (semi) objective frame of mind, […]
My name is Anafi, an Indonesian that currently studying at South Korea. I am in 3rd year of an integrated student (or you can say 1st year of PhD) at Energy Electrochemitry Laboratory, Kumoh National Institute of Technology. I want to share (not precisely) my daily activity, because until now, I am still trying to get a balance between my […]
Ah, the big ‘I’ word. A PhD seems to be synonymous with Imposter Syndrome. Everytime I do a Q&A on Instagram or ask what kind of content people want to see on my blog, Imposter Syndrome is always mentioned. I have not posted much about it to date, mainly because I don’t really have any tips for overcoming it. However, […]
Cafes are your best friend- I like to get to the city early before work to sneak in 1-1.5 hours of PhD work with a coffee. Stay back at work- I often spend an extra hour at work (4.30-5.30pm) working on my PhD. I am in the ‘work zone’ when I am at the office so I find I am […]
I think it was when I started writing the discussion chapter that I could actually see the light at the end of the long, long, long PhD Tunnel. Here are my tips for starting: 1) Read other theses- Read some other PhD student theses and focus on their discussion chapter to get a feel for what other people put in […]