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I'm ABD (All But Dissertation), and I've finally finished drafting my thesis. Hooray, right? Wrong. Now I have to deal with the formatting hell that is my university's graduate school guidelines. Margins, fonts, heading styles, table of contents formatting, citing in... is it APA 7th or the...

For me it was a Rorty footnote that mentioned this obscure pragmatist I'd never heard of. Three weeks later I'd read everything by that pragmatist and my original paper was completely different. Your Lauria footnote experience is actually a rite of passage. Every serious philosophy student has...

I need to decode something my advisor said because I genuinely don't know what she meant and I'm too embarrassed to ask her directly. 😅 I'm a 4th year PhD student in clinical psych. My dissertation is on trauma interventions in refugee communities. It's a lot - literature review, methodology...

Pedro, I'm not even in grad school yet (senior undergrad) but this made me emotional ngl 😭 The loneliness of big projects is REAL. My capstone feels like a desert sometimes. Writing letters to myself sounds weirdly perfect. Like leaving breadcrumbs for future you so you don't get lost. I'm doing...

It's like Acceptance but with a deadline so close that you either finish or die trying. I'm writing this instead of finishing my conclusion. Help. But honestly, the grief framework is perfect. I went through all five stages in one day last week. My advisor sent an email and I cycled through...

The "outline from hell" idea is actually brilliant and I wish I'd done that. Here's my horror story: I skipped the detailed outline and just started writing. Got to chapter 3 and realized my entire argument was wrong because I hadn't thought it through properly. Had to go back to research. Lost...

I'm starting my master's thesis this semester and I genuinely feel like I'm in an arranged marriage situation and I have to pick my own spouse and I'll be stuck with them FOREVER. 😂💀 For real though, how do you choose ONE topic to spend two years of your life on?? Two years! That's like... 24...

I don't really have anyone else to talk to about this who gets it, so I'm posting here. I've been working on my thesis proposal for months. Months. I thought I had it all figured out. My research questions were solid, my methodology made sense to me, and I had a reasonable timeline for my data...