A PhD Candidate is like an explorer at sea…in the 1500s! You may have a passion for adventure, but you are pretty much stuck with a compass and the stars for guidance! For those of you outside academia, let me paint a picture of what our journey on the turbulent[…]
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Researcher Life : Getting out of the Tunnel
Its the ‘resolutions’ time of year! The first two years of my PhD were pretty challenging; full of technical roadblocks and the toils that come with setting up a lab and research design from scratch. As a result, I was mainly just reading work related things and towards the end[…]
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Researcher Life: My Experience with Frogs
If you are familiar with the world of Time-Management, you’ve probably come across The Frog Task. There’s a nice introduction online to what it means to eat the frog, and if you think this isn’t enough, there is also an entire book you can go to! However, the way I[…]
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Researcher Ramblings: Of Role-Models and Women Researchers.
For a while now, I have been thinking about gender issues, a bit differently than I did before. I could attribute this to a lot of life events, but the part I’m going to focus on started with the release of Wonder woman. I saw the poster and thought ‘wow,[…]
Read moreResearcher Life: Reflecting on Conferences
As I traveled back from the last conference this year, I reflect on each of the 4 conferences/summer schools of the last 12 months, comparing and contrasting my take home from this year of travel and talks. Here’s my take on my recent conference experiences… This year (Sep 2016-Sep 2017)[…]
Read moreResearcher Life: You are growing
These days, every time I talk to someone who just started their PhD, I am reminded of the long way I have come. As it goes with seeing someone at a stage you were a few years back, I’ve started reflecting on how I have grown in the 3 years[…]
Read moreResearcher Ramblings: The Joy of Dimensionality
Mental health has come a long, long way in a very short time. The way we diagnose and judge is constantly changing. For instance, it wasn’t long ago that diagnosis was made by checking the shape of the skull. And it was also not too long ago that the only[…]
Read moreResearcher life: Bear in mind
So first, an update for my readers – After a long absence from my blog, for which I send across my heart-felt apologies, I have decided to post more often, and even post shorter articles when I’m on the go. I hope you still like this form of more uninhibited[…]
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Researcher Ramblings: Why the Sun Matters!
It’s 15.46. The lights are on. I sit at my office table looking at my ToDo list. Is this going to be one of those monologues like ‘I’m stuck in this abyss and I’m documenting it so someone knows how my last hours were spent’? Probably! Winter blues are best[…]
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Researcher Life: Of Work and Vacations
Before we start, my apologies for not having written in over 2 months. Another apology in advance for this post being really short. It has a simple message that doesn’t need too many words. Since my last post 2 months back, I’ve been swarmed with work, then I had a[…]
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