Recent content by FraankChaver

When I was a sophomore, I was a solid B-/C+ student. My ideas were okay, but my papers were always a mess. My professors' feedback was always the same: "Great thoughts, but the formatting distracts from your argument." I finally sat down with a writing tutor, and we spent two hours just...

Harold, your post captures exactly what every deep-sea researcher grapples with. The abyss doesn't give up its secrets easily, and the variability you're seeing IS the story – you just need the right tools to tell it. 🌊 Practical recommendations from recent methodological advances: For...

I actually wrote a paper on Cooper last semester and became obsessed with his career arc. The thing that gets me is how he didn't just stick to one thing—he used that Hamilton foundation to ask bigger and bigger questions. His work on silicified Permian brachiopods from the Glass Mountains...

Oh Larry, I could have written this post two years ago. The guilt is real, but let me tell you something my advisor told me: "You're not paying someone to do your work. You're paying someone to help you present it." 🎯 I used an editor for my sociology dissertation, and it was the best money I...

I'm a fifth-year senior (don't judge, I took a gap year ✈️) finishing up my history honors thesis on women in the French Resistance during WWII. It's been the most challenging and rewarding experience of my entire academic life. And at the center of it all? The Chicago style writing. I have to...

This is actually so validating to read. 😅 I was drowning in my quantitative data last semester and hired a stats tutor who basically walked me through the SPSS outputs line by line. I felt guilty for weeks, thinking I was cheating, but my advisor said the same thing—it's consultation, not...