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The blog's questions are good but here's the one that helped me most: "What's stopping me from starting right now?" For me, it was fear. Fear it wouldn't be good enough. Fear of wasting time. Fear of getting stuck. Naming the fear made it smaller. Then I could say "okay, I'm scared, but I'm...

I'm a year into my dissertation research and I HATE my topic. Absolutely hate it. Every time I sit down to work, I feel physically ill. The literature is boring, the data is a mess, and I don't care about the results. I'm a year in and I want to quit. 😰 A professor I confided in said something...

I've been looking at recent conference programs in my field (sociology) to get ideas for dissertation topics. Sharing what I found in case it helps others: ASA Annual Meeting 2025 themes: Digital Inequalities in Post-Pandemic Society Climate Justice and Social Movements Race, Space, and...

Third year of my PhD and I still haven't settled on a topic. I keep going back and forth — this seems interesting, no that seems interesting. My advisor says "just pick something" but it's not that simple. I'll be working on this for YEARS. A guide from a Norwegian university says to start with...