Posts Categorized: Blogging the PhD

In one of our meetings, my supervisor happened to mention that most PhD students spend their first year reading before they even start their dissertation novel or its accompanying reflective thesis. Which of course sent this type-A planner into a giant flail, thinking I was doing something wrong or out of order. To add to this,…

Only three little words. But like other things that take three words, there’s a whole lot of other stuff going on behind them that sometimes make a response difficult–even impossible. So when my dissertation supervisor asks, “What’s it about?” in our very first meeting this past week, I kind of choked. “Well, a lot of…