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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Researcher Life: Of Supervisors and Supervising
As PhDs, we are in a complicated position. We are getting the highest degree possible, but still at the start of our careers. We are learning to deal with our superiors, while having (in most cases) students looking up to us for their Bachelor/ Masters projects. If you are working[…]
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Researcher Ramblings: Science as its Biggest Stakeholder
Time for another Rambling Post. This time, the point I want to make simply takes a few sentences. In our everyday struggles as researchers, we are caught up in being answerable to our supervisors, funding bodies, publication agencies and in some cases, our immediate consumers. These are, of course, our[…]
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Researcher Life: The Storm
Yes, it’s here. After the long wait, the storm has started. Honestly speaking, I started writing a blog post last week, right before the onset of the Storm, and I could never finish it! So this week, thankfully to the end of my storm, is a new post – all[…]
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Researcher Life : The Wait
A curious phenomenon researchers go through is what I call ‘the Wait’. As a researcher you are expected to solve a million problems. You are usually on a go-go-go schedule. Every now and then though, there is a problem that you can not immediately solve. You can collect all the[…]
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Researcher Ramblings: Researcher-Like-Thinking
So far I have focused on a researcher’s life. This new series of posts titled ‘researcher ramblings’, are my views and perspectives of my life as a researcher. This first post has demanded a lot of introspection! I was on a nice vacation last week! Through all this free time[…]
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Researcher Life: “I had Fun”
I just finished my first round of testings and something happened in this study, that has never happened to me before – my participants were curious about my study and said they had ‘FUN’. Although they had to do multiple tasks, they only complained about one of them. In all[…]
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Researcher Life: Monday morning blues
It’s that day of the week, when after taking a break, I needed to go back to the rut. Yes, it’s Moooonnnn…Thursday! Well, this time, its a Thursday. Yup, as a researcher, your Monday morning blues may happen at any point during the week. Allow me to elaborate a bit.[…]
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