Gifts for PhD students

While criticizing procrastination the other day, we realized that it would be fair to suggest a solution to it, so here it goes: 250 words a day add up to 91250 words a year. That's approximately one page a day, adding up to more than the average required word limit across all study programs at the University of Cambridge, and matches the length of the average dissertation … [Read more...] about 250 Words a Day

We have already touched down on the topic of thesis writing in other posts, listing a few of our funny thesis-related themes that you can order as a motivational gift to a fellow PhD student. However, after stumbling upon this (somewhat harsh but realistic) piece of motivational advice on LifeHacker, we decided to dedicate a quick post to our own variation of. The … [Read more...] about Get Off Your A** and Write Your Thesis

Good writers read [1], and “wanting to write without wanting to read” [2] simply does not sound rational, as there is no proper writing without proper reading, that’s how it is. Although the majority of university students may not read books for pleasure - as proven in Japan for instance [3], or do not read at all [4] - if that’s what really happens [5], and there is no … [Read more...] about Leaders Are Readers