Receiving critical feedback on your dissertation can feel like a gut punch. Advisor comments can shake your confidence and make you question your abilities and direction. Just remember, this is a normal and necessary part of the academic journey. Your advisor’s role is to challenge you, to push you to reach your full potential. Even … How to Manage Dissertation Feedback
Finals are over, grades are in, and final seminar papers are complete. Now what? The next few months stretch out before us, whispering promises of lighter schedules, vacation time, and more time to nap and play. But another inner voice says, “No. This is the time to double down on research. This is the time … How to Make Your Summer Productive: An Academic Plan that Doesn’t Suck
Are you a grad student? Does it ever feel like you’re being quizzed on something you are supposed to know, but don’t? Do you ever catch yourself saying, “Why didn’t anyone tell me this?” or “How was I ever supposed to know that?” If so, you’re not alone. Grad school can feel like joining … Learning the Unwritten Rules of Graduate School
We’ve all been there: staring at the flashing cursor on the blank screen, or the pages we’ve already written but need to revise. We diagnose it as writer’s block, a mysterious force stealing our productivity and creativity. But what if writer’s block is simply a clever disguise for a deeper fear: the fear of making … How to Overcome Writers’ Block: A Guide for Academic Writers
Feeling buried in an avalanche of emails? You’re not alone. Many of us struggle with email overload. It’s easy to get overwhelmed and start avoiding our inboxes entirely. We’re going to organize it all someday, we tell ourselves. The problem is that someday never comes. It’s okay. It happens. But it doesn’t have to stay … Email Intervention: From Chaos to Calm in Your Inbox
It is happening again. You are sitting at your computer, and you are sighing loudly. You planned this time for your dissertation, but now you are facing the dreaded blank computer screen. Or maybe it’s endless interviews that you need to code and resistance to doing the work is high. Maybe you are struggling with … Is It Academic Burnout or Are You Bored with Your Dissertation?
Every day it’s the same. You wake up with the same heavy feeling, the same dullness and fatigue. Every day, you think about doing academic work, but you just don’t have the energy. You know you need to work, and you’re even falling behind, but you just can’t seem to do it. If you think … How To Deal with Academic Burnout When You Don’t Have Time to Deal with Academic Burnout
Are you an academic? Do you struggle to progress when you have to work on a conference paper, article, book chapter, or dissertation? Do you find yourself researching and researching and never writing anything? Do you take your manuscript through revision after revision, resulting in little change? If you answered yes to any of … Taming The Dragon of Academic Perfectionism
