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Day in the Life of a Computational Chemist PhD candidate.
Posted On April 12, 2022

Hey! I am Nisha Khurana(@uohyd_thesis), doing PhD in University of Hyderabad (India). I am a Computational Chemist. Being a computational chemist, sometimes it becomes boring to sit on a chair …

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Academia
Forming an identity in academia
April 8, 2021

One of the unexpected challenges I have faced during my first year post-phd in academia is knowing how to form my own academic identity. After spending five years (honours included) …


Academia
Curiosity killed the cat, but fuels academia
March 11, 2021

While curiosity killed the cat, curiosity fuels academia. Academia is an incredible profession where amongst the administration, the student complaints, the tedious grant writing, and the journal rejections, you get …


Academia  / PhD
A year on from my Viva.
February 5, 2021

It has been a year since I defended my PhD. A year since I was called Dr. Le Busque for the first time and well, what a year it has …


Academia
Navigating competition in early career academia
January 13, 2021

“Don’t be so kind you forget to be clever, don’t be so clever you forgot to be kind”. I have always been a sucker for resonating with lyrics, and this recent …


PhD
PhD Diaries: 24th March 2016
January 11, 2021

Click here to read the previous installment  I have already been a PhD student for over a month. One month of how many months? A PhD is a marathon not a …


PhD
PhDiaries 12.03.2016
December 15, 2020

12th March 2016 Being a Saturday today meant that I didn’t do any work. This is novel as for my entire undergraduate experience I worked on weekends to support myself. I …


PhD
PhD Survival Guide: What is a PhD like?
October 3, 2020

During my final year of PhD, my honours student asked to meet to discuss her options for next year. She wanted to know more about what a PhD entails and …


Life
Assumptions about me…
September 25, 2020

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 …