I Am a Phd Student

It has been difficult... I have learned from my mistakes.
1. Keep it as small and simple as you possibly can
2. Networking networking networking...
3. Your relation with your supervisor is the most important thing you have. Work on it...

I am writing my Thesis and hardest part is to concentrate on writing while TAing. Do others feel the same...besides I do pretty well but I feel terribly slowed down at times and lose focus now and then.

At age 43 I'm a PhD student in my last year or so of studies. I have had a rough time finishing my degree. I think it's because I love learning but not tests!  I feel that, having taken all the required and elected courses in my...

i'm realizing that getting a phd is all about jumping through hoops...i'm a 4th year doctoral student in counseling psychology and this is quite possibly one of the most difficult endeavors i've ever undertaken...
the first year was...

I have always been a passive person. Instead of creating and deciding on my own, most of my decisions are based on people surrounding me and the popular safe path. As a result, I went straight to college and then to a prestigious grad...

I hope some of you might be able to give me some sage advice. I just completed a grant proposal as part of my comprehensive exam, and just received the results. I failed and need to do revisions. I accept that sometimes we can't...

I really didn't know what I was getting myself into with a PhD, and really there's no way to know.  No matter how many graduate students you talk to, or recent PhDs or faculty, it's such a different experience for each person, so...

I hope some of you might be able to give me some sage advice. I just completed a grant proposal as part of my comprehensive exam, and just received the results. I failed and need to do revisions. I accept that sometimes we can't...

I am a PhD. student in the middle of my 3rd year. Last year we had a full time faculty member leave the university due to disagreements with the chair and basically just not agreeing with some of the issues that were going on in the...

The first thing that strikes me on this site is the lack of live PhD student activity. Am I missing something? Are you all hidden away not wanting to be found? Or are you seriously dedicated and hardworking all of the time? Come out...

I am a rising third year PhD student. Soon, I have to do my proposal defense and so far I have no data. Initially, when I started in the lab, my experiments were not working. 5 months of nothing. when I decided to join the lab for my...

I am sure all PhD students know it. It's why I'm writing this instead of rearranging my notes; it's why you (if you exist....) are reading this instead of getting on with climbing out of the bottomless and slippery-sided pit that is...

I've wanted to pursue my PhD since 1994. I didn't pursue it back then because I thought it would be unfair to my wife; to start life without a job and a means to financially support her. Later, I delayed pursuit because of career...

I am in my third year of my Phd study...I feel so hopeless right now...I have no idea what am I doing...I faced so many obstacles that make me want to give up my study. I am doing something different from my master study. I used to...

I have spent more than 8 years of my life balancing...... I have been a student and a mom, a student and a working mom, a student and an expat, a student and...... well a student AND... for as long as I can remember. I am beginning to...

Anyone out there married AND a PhD student? What kind of support are you getting from your spouses? I'm frustrated because I'm in the writing stage now, but I do most of the cooking and housework, pay the bills, etc. and I...

The Audacity of Scientific Morality(http://chakravyu.org/wordpress/the-audacity-of-scientific-morality/)is a scathing attack on the current state of instiutionalized scientific research. With detailed descriptions of incidences...

My dissertation Chair is crazy.  After my Chair and her committee approved my proposal and promoted me to doctoral candidate status; my Chair goes off on me about a paragraph that she asked me to add in my...