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Defended my master's thesis yesterday afternoon after eighteen months of work and I genuinely don't know how to feel. My committee passed me with minor revisions, the defense went better than any of my practice runs, and I came home and ate cereal for dinner and watched television for three...

Greetings from the dark side of academia. I'm in the final stretch of my PhD in Sociology at Columbia. My dissertation on urban gentrification is 250 pages of what I now believe to be pure nonsense. 📉 Three weeks until my defense. My advisor keeps sending me emails with subject lines like "A...

I've finished my fieldwork, I've done my analysis, and now I'm just... writing. Or trying to write. Mostly staring at walls and procrastinating. 🧱 I keep hearing about "dissertation writing groups" - like groups of grad students who meet regularly (weekly or whatever) to write together, share...

I need a fresh pair of eyes because I've been staring at this for so long it all looks like gibberish. My paper is about the gig economy and worker rights. I've gone through like five drafts and I still dont know if Im on the right track. Which one of these actually works? Draft A (The...

I'm in the early stages of planning my linguistics dissertation, and I've become completely obsessed with looking at other people's titles for inspiration. And I keep coming back to one that lives in my head rent-free: Rebecca Tollan dissertation title "Cross-Linguistic Effects of Subjecthood...

I just had my first official meeting with my dissertation supervisor. I walked in feeling pretty good—I have a topic I'm excited about, I've done some preliminary reading, I felt ready. And then she casually drops the "p-word" and I realize I have absolutely no clue what I've signed up for. She...