Recent content by Diane

Hey! International engineering student here (UK). The regulations part is tricky because every country has different rules about "third-party assistance." In the UK, for example, you can have an editor but you have to declare it. In the US, rules vary by university. You need to check your...

This is fascinating, but also incredibly depressing. We're so buried by the workload that we're resorting to commodifying our education like this. I get it, I really do. Sometimes you have three papers due and a job shift, and you panic. That said, your methodology is a little flawed (no...

ViVi, I had my entire dissertation proposal absolutely demolished in my first committee meeting. Like, pages of notes, fundamental structural problems, the works. I went home and applied to a coding bootcamp because I was so convinced I was done with academia. 😅 That was two years ago. I...

5th year PhD here, ABD with a dissertation that's currently in therapy. Alan, I feel you so hard. AI for paraphrasing is actually useful but you have to use it like a thesaurus on steroids, not a ghostwriter. Take your clunkiest sentence, run it through, look at the output, and then rewrite it...

I'm in month eight of dissertation writing and I need to know: does anyone else feel like they're slowly disappearing into their own brain? I'm writing about urban gentrification and displacement, which is a heavy topic to begin with, but the isolation of this process is something nobody...