You lost your face mask again. Your partner is grumpy. You are still waiting for your supervisor’s feedback. Your computer crashes. There is hardly any progress on your analysis. And you so don’t want to check that text again, after having revised it for the 15th time. And all of…
Revising is not an easy task. There is so much to pay attention to in your text. Spelling, grammar, your ideas, your argumentation, paragraphs, references, charts, explanation of the charts, the way you are presenting your results. Consequently, you can’t see the wood for the trees. Handy tips In this…
Have you ever played the Super Mario game? Then you know that the goal is to rescue Princess Peach by guiding Mario past obstacles and opponents and collecting as many points as possible. To achieve this you have to play through 32 levels. According to Mark Rober – NASA engineer…
When will they find out I can’t do it? And me asking too many questions, they will for sure think I am not at all cut out to be a PhD student. Do you recognize this? It is then very likely you suffer from imposter syndrome. Many PhD students struggle…
I am getting rather tired of it. All these lists of New Year’s resolutions, fresh starts, start anew. 2021 is only a few weeks old and I don’t want to be reminded of all these good intentions. Also, because probably in a few weeks time, nobody will have kept them.…
The lockdown hasn’t finished yet. Maybe you were already tired of the lockdown and are you fed up with it all. Or you are still coping but now it all is taking its toll. To search for some glimmers of light now and then is very important. So instead of…
