“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: Reflections
On Giving Good Presentations
Somehow I Enjoy Giving Academic Talks. Here’s Why. I’ve never liked public speaking. Even into college, I identified with – or passively accepted – labels…
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A Short Reflection on Rejections
7:30am. I open that messy bird app that I’ve been wanting to quit and see someone’s celebratory post announcing that they’ve won a grant. It’s…
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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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Coping (Club Q)
We have mass shootings in America all the time. But it hits and hurts differently, intensely, when your hometown is the one that has become…
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PhD, Semester 8: It’s Been a Lot
In February 2020, I wrote a post titled “PhD, Semester 4: An Inventory of Exhaustion.” It was a very long post about being tired. I…