Category: Your Academic Journey

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How to Use SciSpace Library to Organise and Understand Your Research

The SciSpace Library is built to help you organise research papers, pull out what matters, and actually understand the papers you are working with. It turns a mess of PDFs into something searchable, interactive, and manageable without the constant back-and-forth between tabs, folders, and notes. In this blog post, we will introduce SciSpace Library and outline the various ways in which you can use it and its key features.

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Office 216

Discover how a graduate student’s temporary office space serves as a metaphor for their sense of unbelonging throughout their academic journey, and how they find solace in making the most of the temporary joys that come their way.

Experiences

Motherhood and Doctoral Studies: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Navigating motherhood and academia can be overwhelming, especially when they happen simultaneously. I discuss my experiences, struggles, and successes as an emerging researcher and new mother, and suggestions for universities to further support these populations moving forward.

Experiences

Is Time Running Out? Time Anxiety in the PhD Student

Time anxiety is an underestimated and significant mental challenge for many PhD students. It refers to the worry, tension, or stress regarding the passage of time. This article offers some advice to help handle time anxiety.

First-Gen Student

Oral Defense Of A Foodie Candidate

This article by Eleazar Reward shares how being a foodie has enriched his life as a doctoral candidate in molecular virology, broadening his cultural integration, creating special memories, and promoting healthy nutrition.

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Six Ways To Prepare For Your Upcoming PhD

Dr Chris Thompson offers six ways to prepare for a PhD. Alongside finding rest, students should reach out to current PhD students or experienced academics to absorb their wisdom, research their new surroundings, and connect with future colleagues to create a network before starting.

Experiences

From Stay-at-Home Mom to Doctorate Student at 50

Not all doctoral degrees are earned in your 30s and 40s. While many pursue doctoral degrees during those years to attain professional gains and financial security, this article shows how enrolling in a PhD program in your 50s can bring a fresh lens due to entering a new season of life and finally having a window of opportunity to step outside your comfort zone.

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Why I Love Using Paperpile For Reference Management (Ad)

Discover how a PhD student turned to Paperpile to manage the chaos of storing and referencing papers, with the online tool helping them save, sort and access papers with ease.

Productivity

The #1 Reason Papers Get Rejected (and How to Avoid It)

Rejection stings. You put months into a paper, edit it until you can’t stand to look at it anymore, hit submit, and then a few

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From Nerves to Triumph: Your Personal Guide to Dissertation Defense

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From Dancer to Writer: An Unconventional Path into Academia

Exploring Beyond the Title: Top 10 Creative and Hilarious Alternatives for ‘PhD’

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Kris Hill

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