Tag: phdlife
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The Evolution of a PhD
Image from PhD comics which, if you haven't read it before, is an excellent source of procrastination! So it's been nearly a year since my upgrade interview for the PhD after which I made some ambitious New Academic Year Resolutions. This past year has both gone very slowly and very…
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My PhD Summer
So it's really been a while since I last blogged here! I've been juggling quite a few different things the past few months. Between finishing up the second year of my PhD and wedding planning, blogging has fallen by the wayside a little but I have a bit of extra…
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Happiness Planning
So I am aware that a lot of my recent posts have been very focused on the emotional aspects of the PhD and have maybe been a bit 'holistic' for some people (blame the yoga and kale...). This also wasn't necessarily the focus of this blog when I started it.…
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Happiness Non-Negiotable
I was recently tagged by my friend, Hannah, over at Obliviously Awesome (she writes a great, no-nonsense blog about first-time parenting so you should definitely check that out too!) to write my 'Happiness Non-Negiotable List'. The idea is that there are little things in our day-to-day lives which make us…
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'Deep Work' and the PhD
During my recent short break from the PhD, I decided to read a couple of non-PhD books to keep me amused and help me switch off from eighteenth-century children for a while. Because my research has such a strong literature focus, I often find it hard to read fiction and…