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[last updated: September 11, 2024]
Presentation anxiety
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/studentstories/2021/03/18/presentation-anxiety/
Reading time: 2 minutes by Doireann, from Ireland, studying PhD Precision Medicine, 2nd Year This year I was unusually reluctant to say farewell to February, for two main reasons: March brings the first anniversary of the original COVID lockdown; and if you consider Monday to be the first day of the week, February was a perfect month, beginning with […]
[last updated: September 11, 2024]
PhD Life in 2021
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/studentstories/2021/02/17/phd-life-in-2021/
Reading time: 2 minutes by Doireann, from Ireland, studying PhD Precision Medicine, 2nd Year 2021 has been the longest year ever recorded, and it’s only February. Whatever ray of hope we had with the conclusion of 2020 was quickly extinguished by a new and improved coronavirus (is “improved” the appropriate word?), lockdowns, and the impending closure of Jenners. While […]
[last updated: September 16, 2024]
The Karolinska Institute, project breakthroughs and Thanksgiving dinner
Reading time: 2 minutes by Doireann, from Ireland, studying PhD Precision Medicine, 2nd Year One more month closer to the end of this all-round awful year! As we all know, once the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, 2020 will be behind us, taking all of our problems and pandemics with it (wishful thinking, sadly). This past month […]
[last updated: September 16, 2024]
The many faces of a PhD programme
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/studentstories/2020/11/11/the-many-faces-of-a-phd-programme/
Reading time: 2 minutes by Doireann, from Ireland, studying PhD Precision Medicine, 2nd Year When I imagined the life of a PhD student two years ago, I pictured long days in the lab, no time for hobbies, loneliness and isolation. While the isolation part was proven to be true this year (do we need to discuss why?), this image […]