A PhD student's life for me

o ho, yo ho, a PhD students's life for me. We labor, we toil, we read and write. Buck up me 'earties, yo ho.

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When you are about to finish a chapter and your brain suddenly comes up with a new angle

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When you finally send a particularly hard to write chapter to your supervisor...

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When you have been working on your conclusion for hours and it’s still not right....

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I’ve got this! I think...

When you suddenly find yourself facing multiple (massive) deadlines within 1 month

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When you are still working on that one chapter...

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When you reread something you wrote at the start of your PHD

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No, no, no, no!

When you are editing a chapter you wrote a while ago and suddenly no longer agree with your own arguments...

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Happy dance!

When you get asked to contribute to a companion on literature!

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Writing a conclusion to a chapter

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Celebrate small successes

When you have successfully stuck to your writing schedule for over a month

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The struggle is real

When you know you have to delete a paragraph, because it will make your argument clearer....

And one part of your brain is so ready for it...

Whilst the other is having trouble giving it up:

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When people ask how’s grad school.

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waiting for my supervisor to respond to my queries

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Can’t you just say what you mean?!

When you are trying to critically engage with an essay and you suddenly discover that the scholar only ever implies what he means and never clearly states what his argument is.

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Summarizing is hard

When you are trying to summarize into one paragraph a theory which took the original philosopher three volumes to explain.

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Kill me now...

When you get a new supervisor whilst you are quite far into your PhD and she makes it clear that she hates your writing style.

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Willpower for the win

Literally relying on willpower to get through a day of research, because you are down with a really, really bad cold, but have a deadline coming up...