Shoot You thought you had done everything but you forgot to get the bin out! What to do when you think you have finished everything? This works the same for your thesis. You are sure you have finished it – read: you have submitted your last manuscript to your supervisors…
Adding up all the hours I can only conclude that I wasted a lot of time, really unnecessarily. And it is so simple: make sure you have a fixed spot for your keys (and telephone and other things you might need leaving the house) and you never have to search…
I am really jealous of people who can breast crawl. They can swim much faster and with less effort than I can. I can only swim using the breaststroke. As a child, I was very allergic to chlorine so I couldn’t join any swimming lessons. I never learned how to…
‘Which bite of food would you leave last on your plate?’ a friend asked me a while ago when we were having a drink. ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Well, some people just finish off their plates without thinking about an order what to eat first. Other people make sure that…
I was walking down the street last week and I noticed a man who was engrossed in his mobile phone. A minute later I saw him tumbling into some bushes. It made me laugh but the man wasn’t too amused. Every PhD student will encounter obstacles. Big ones and small…
A while ago I received a mail from Marjolein. She wrote that she had read a book of Mark Tigchelaar about reading and memorising. The book refers to the software you can use when reading texts on a screen. The difference in screen and paper Research has shown that we…
