By Graduate Neuroscience Students At McGill
As an academic, have you ever found yourself not wanting to go to a scientific conference? This year, I wasn’t sure I should submit an abstract for the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), and the closer the date of the conference was, the less energy and motivation I felt to attend it. […]
What if you’re too tired to go to a conference? (Still go!) Read More »
Who doesn’t like an occasional initiation ritual? Celebrate, recalibrate, and step right into that brave new year, together with your customized list of dreams and plans (woohoo…). Number one on my 2018 resolutions list is to finish all experiments for my dissertation (yay to unrealistic timelines!). Number two is to invest time and energy into
Back in 2013, a year before I submitted my Master’s thesis, I wrote an overly long e-mail to a McGill professor who was doing the exact research I was interested in. I presented myself, talked about my interest in his work, and asked whether he’d be willing to take me on as a PhD student.
Rotating to your best PhD Read More »
Welcome back everybody from the Holidays and Happy New Year! Now that you are refreshed and ready to tackle your research, what better way to help you get started in the best way possible than a productivity post? Nothing, we should say! So here you go! Our first post of the year is a guest
The PhD starter kit Read More »