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Hey folks, hope the semester is treating you all well. Up here in Toronto, the weather is getting colder and my motivation to write about the socioeconomic impacts of urban planning is getting lower. ❄️ I'm in the thick of my PhD dissertation and honestly, I'm struggling with the literature...

Year 5 of my PhD in Sociology. My advisor wants a full draft of my thesis "by the end of the semester." I've been staring at the same three paragraphs for two weeks. My data analysis is done, my literature review is a mess of disconnected files, and my will to live is directly correlated with...

I'm deep into my dissertation for Neuroscience, and I feel like I'm drowning in data and citations. My committee keeps telling me to just focus on being a "thesis maker"—just generating content—but they don't understand that my brain is fried. I'm the first person in my family to go to grad...

Greetings, fellow travelers on the road to academic perdition. I am currently in the 5th year of my PhD program, staring down a dissertation draft that is 200 pages of... well, it's something. My committee's latest feedback was a 15-page document of single-spaced comments that essentially said...

I just successfully defended my Master's thesis last week (social science), and now that I'm on the other side, I wanted to share some things I learned the hard way. If you're starting your thesis or dissertation, maybe this will help. 1. Your advisor is not your mom. I went into this thinking...

Year 5 of the PhD. ABD all but dissertation) for what feels like an eternity. I'm in the final stretch of writing my dissertation (humanities), and I need to vent to people who actually get it. No one tells you that writing a dissertation isn't really about being smart. You got into a PhD...

I'm a 4th year PhD candidate in neuroscience. I have my results. I have beautiful graphs, significant p-values, the whole deal. My results chapter is solid. But now I have to write the discussion, and I am completely stuck. My advisor keeps sending my drafts back with the same comment: "This is...