by Dr. Rachna Jain | Self Care Ideas
In completing a project the length and size of the dissertation, it can be easy to believe that you constantly need to keep moving forward; otherwise you’ll actually be losing ground. It’s like that feeling that you have to keep moving forward or...
by Dr. Rachna Jain | Self Care Ideas
I woke up today and realized and I have been working very, very hard. While most of the time I enjoy working a full day and creating new things and making new things happen, I also realized that my tendency is to almost constantly be starting a new project, or...
by Dr. Rachna Jain | Self Care Ideas
First some good news: I’ve just found out that 3 more of your peers have finished their dissertations and have successfully defended. I didn’t get confirmed permission to share their names, but I just wanted to start off by congratulating them on this...
by Dr. Rachna Jain | Self Care Ideas
Sometimes, there are experiences in the dissertation process which become a crisis (or, at least, feel like one.) Examples might be related to your family- as in someone in your family gets sick; or they may be related to the dissertation more specifically; as in your...
by Dr. Rachna Jain | Competition in Graduate School, Self Care Ideas
It’s inevitable, really. If you spend time with people, you will get criticized. Not by everyone (hopefully) or about everything (hopefully), but people, by nature, can’t seem to get by without offering (supposedly) helpful advice or feedback. Let’s...
by Dr. Rachna Jain | Self Care Ideas
I’ve probably said this before……and want to recommend, again, that you be careful in sharing your dissertation process or progress with people who probably won’t understand, and, worse, may make you feel badly about your project. I...
