How to Academia - A blog on academic selfhelp
This category contains a series of posts where we share our experiences with certain experiences related to academia, such as networking at conferenes, job interviews or actually getting interview for science-to-public purposes.
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1. PhD Life (top-level category containing everything)
2. Academic Jetset
3. What’s it like Series
I was motivated to write this blog post because I watched this YouTube video of a PhD student who is thinking about quitting because “academia with its networking isn’t for them”. If that’s you,...
I have considered chairing panels at academic conferences for a while as a topic for a potential blog post. This aspect of academic life isn’t self-evident and there are only a few guides on...
You might have heard about time blocking (or time chunking) by now. If not, this is the short Wikipedia definition of it: Timeblocking or time blocking (also known as time chunking) is a productivity...
In a post last year about Post PhD Submission Fatigue I promised to follow up and then I never did. Post Phd Submission fatigue got me 😀 So now, you’ll get both an update...
Dear online readers, my name is Philipp and I am a PhD student of archaeology at the universities of Mainz and Erlangen (Germany). This year I am enjoying the full academic jet-set life with...
In today’s post, I wanted to address the important topic of academic societies. You can learn about what they are and what benefits they offer in case you don’t have a clear picture of...
As some of you might know, I submitted my PhD thesis a while ago. I knew about the supposed post-(PhD)-partum depression from stories, of course. I wasn’t sure how it was going to play...
I live for the adrenaline. I always have. As you can imagine, in between the bore-out and burn-out that is continuous Covid lockdown, adrenaline rushes are hard to come by. But not this weekend!...
