“I Hate My Dissertation” and Other Writing Barriers
I knew it was coming. I’d seen enough students complaining online to know that it seemed to happen to everyone. This summer I finally felt…
Category: Graduate School Milestones
Choosing a Dissertation Committee
I’ve been asked a few times about how I chose my dissertation committee, mostly by friends who are currently going through the process themselves. Personally,…
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Feedback, Again: Dissertation Proposal Edition
Reflecting on my dissertation proposal, the one topic I had to write about was feedback. I first wrote about feedback in my first year of…
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Dissertation Proposal Defense: How It Went
December 2, 2022, 11:50 am Tapping my feet nervously, I’m sitting at my home “office,” which is just my dining room table with my laptop…
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Qualifying Exams III: How-to (The Advice Post)
At one point, I decided not to write an advice post on quals. People seemed to have wildly different experiences. I didn’t think I could…
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Qualifying Exams II: How They Fail
In my last post, I wrote about my day-to-day experience taking the qualifying exam (“quals”) in September. As I worked through that blog post, my…