Academic Success Blog

A very quick post: graduate students who are not familiar with the comic strip “Piled Higher & Deeper” (aka PhD) probably should be; it has sometimes frighteningly accurate depictions of life as a graduate student− with particular (and frequent) reference to the tendency to, yes, procrastinate while engaged in graduate, er, “research”:“Piled Higher & Deeper” [...]

I came across a great recommendation on the “Phinished” website to try rotating ways of working.  15 minutes a day is great for a while. Then it’s often helpful to switch to, say, a goal of 2 pages a day for a while, and so on.  See “Erika’s post”: “The 40 minute system and research [...]