For many PhD students it is so abstract. How come I am not happy? I started my PhD full of ambition and ideas, was rearing to start, but now I am working on it for a while I notice it doesn’t make me as happy as I thought I would…
I don’t really like to mention it but I come across many PhD students who don’t feel very happy. Because of the pressure of work, the relationship with their supervisor, because they are insecure if they will be able to finish their thesis, because the writing doesn’t seem to progress,…
Do you have the same feeling that the beginning of a new year creates new possibilities and new changes? That you can make a new start, leave everything behind and start all over? It is a shame that that feeling disappears quite quickly again. You will be back in the…
You probably know it: you had planned to write, you were totally ready. You were mentally prepared….. Nothing was in the way of writing. It doesn’t work…. And still, it doesn’t work. Before you know it, all the hours you had reserved are gone and you have to do other…
So, do you remember the resolutions you made at the beginning of this year? Or maybe the ones you made at the beginning of the Academic New Year? Big chance that you made a start, but that you stranded again. That’s what happens normally with resolutions. And you promised yourself…
