Category: Getting things done

Can you write 1000 words in a day? Linda Kirkman says “yes you can- at least a 1000 word blog post!”.

Once I had to write 60,000 words in 3 months. This is how I did it. It’s not pretty, but it worked.

This guest post is by Gabriel Oguda, who is studying for an MPhil in Health Promotion at the University of Bergen in Norway. Gabriel makes a convincing case for exploring other options when it comes to bibliographic software.

In this post I hone in on the first problem almost every PhD student confronts – how to make sense of all that information out there…

This guest post is written by Elizabeth Humphrys, who has recently completed her Masters Thesis. Her day job is investigating student complaints and misconduct at a public university. Here Elizabeth shares her thoughts on the feelings she experienced just before submitting. I submitted my Masters thesis in October 2010. I recently received the examiners’ reports …continue reading.

This guest post is by Eva Lantsoght who is a PhD student at Delft University of Technology. Here Eva reflects on how knowing yourself is an integral part of developing effective working habits This post is inspired by a course for PhD students which I am doing, in which a small group of PhD students …continue reading.

Squisy Scientist talks about getting the academic bonding process going

In which I share an experience of ‘threshold crossing’ as a way to understand being ‘stuck’

In which I wonder what Foucault would have to say about word processing software.

The following is a book review in the style of the McSweeney Open Letters to entities that are unlikely to respond. If you are not really a Twitter devotee you could insert Facebook or email – any digital application which connects you to the crowd and sometimes gets in the way of your work. Hi …continue reading.