Abs 🦋

Midwest born and raised Doctoral Candidate. * I’m screaming * TSErasTourKCN2

[Abs 🦋 @TheFreeVP]

Master’s program: only expects you to show up for class the first day

PhD program: Have four chapters read by the first day

Oh boy 🥴

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdlife #phdchat

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

Research life is great 😅

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Me trusting the process and hoping my thesis will be okay

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Kidnappers returning me after listening to me talk about my thesis topic for 1 hour

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

Time to reorganise my cupboards 😏

[Abs 🦋 @TheFreeVP]

Another year another update: closing out my dissertation survey and starting to write chapter 4 - oh and a gave birth to my daughter in March

[Abs 🦋 @TheFreeVP]

Master’s program: only expects you to show up for class the first day

PhD program: Have four chapters read by the first day

Oh boy 🥴

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdlife #phdchat

[Abs 🦋 @TheFreeVP]

Passed my comprehensive exam on 4/26/24 and am officially a doctoral candidate!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This is a five alarm fire.

The people elected Donald Trump to be President - not Elon Musk.

Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security.

This should not be a partisan issue.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Sharing my exciting academic insights with my non-academic friends

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Change your environment. If you're always writing in the same place, a change of scenery can be refreshing.

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

A common misconception:
‘To get a PhD, I need to be really smart.’

Nope. You just have to be genuinely curious.

I often hear students say they're afraid of a PhD because they feel 'not good enough' for it.

My experience is:

- You don’t need extraordinary skills to earn a PhD
- You don’t need to be a ‘walking encyclopedia’
- You don’t need to be a genius

❗ All you need is curiosity.

The curiosity that brings joy in exploring intricate technical details.

- Hard work is a by-product of curiosity.
- Exploration of literature is a by-product of curiosity.
- Your own vision for the field is also a by-product of curiosity!

The problem is that:

- There are advisors who likes ‘active doers', not ‘curious thinkers'
- There are bad & boring projects that misalign with natural curiosity
- There is a lack of mentorship that fails to nurture curiosity

Of course, all students are different:
Some PhD students are fast thinkers, others are fast learners or deep thinkers. Some require re-learning. Others need proper mentorship in their first year.

❗But there is NO fundamental flaws that should prevent 99% of students from getting a PhD.

PhD is just a degree.

You are ready for it if you feel curious.

[ADHD Jesse @adhdjesse]

My phone has this great feature that reminds you when it’s time to wind-down so you can get to bed on time, and I’ve developed a great nightly ritual of dismissing it without giving it a second though.

It’s as effective as my first alarm in the morning, which is to say, not.

[Black Therapist 💕 @NicoleLewisLCSW]

You can’t CBT your way out of none of the nonsense that we are enduring.

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

"ooh you know well"