Search results

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...