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    Dissertation formatting is going to literally kill me. Help.

    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...
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    My advisor suggested I get a 'dissertation coach' - is that code for someone who writes it for you?

    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...
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    Choosing a thesis topic feels like picking a spouse - help!

    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...
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    Venting My thesis plan just got rejected by my advisor. Feeling like a total failure. 💔

    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...
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