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Year 4 of the PhD here. If you're about to start your dissertation or are in the middle of it, let me save you some therapy bills: you will never feel like writing. Motivation is a myth. The key to managing your time during this beast is building a system that works even when you want to light...

I'm going to be honest here, and it's something I've barely told anyone. I was this close to dropping out last semester because of my undergraduate thesis. I'm a first-gen student, and I work 30 hours a week at a restaurant to pay for school. My parents are proud, but they don't understand why...

I never thought I'd be that person. You know, the one lurking on forums trying to figure out if it's ethical to pay someone to help with their dissertation. I always considered myself a solid student. 3.7 GPA, never missed a deadline, always participated in class. But then came the dissertation...

I'm writing this philosophy paper on philosophy of mind and desire, right? Standard stuff. My professor recommended Lauria's work because I'm interested in the deontic view of desire—basically this idea that desiring something means representing it as how things ought to be. Cool stuff. I...

this is a real problem. I've taken two writing-intensive classes this semester and now I can't have a normal disagreement with anyone without my brain going into argumentative writing mode. My roommate said pineapple doesn't belong on pizza and I literally started mentally outlining my...