These three weeks have been intense in terms of work. I needed to get prepared for my first qualification exam, whose topic was on neurolinguistics. It was a lot of articles to review before the exam last Wednesday, I literally spent days and nights on it, not being able to see the sun outside! I…
Category: PhD Thoughts
[Week 88] Don’t give up (aka pisawad), or the depressive states of a PhD
This week has been very weird, with a lot of up-and-down in my mood. I had a lot of things to do: besides the summaries of neurolinguistic articles, I also had to prepare a presentation, and to write down the pre-analyses of how time is encoded in a Formosan language. In fact, for the work,…
[Tuesday, January 08] How it is to be a foreign PhD student in a not-recognized country
It has been already several days that I thought of this topic. I was also wondering whether I should write a post about it. I kind of feel not legitimate to talk about it, but in another way, it concerns me directly, and I may not feel so unlegitimate! But anymay, let’s get into the…
[2019, January 1st] Review of 2018, after 1 year of PhD
2018 just ended, and 2019 has just begun. It’s time for a short review of this intensive year! PhD program I entered the program in September 2017, so when 2018 started, I just spent 6 months in the PhD program. No wonder at this time, almost nothing had been done! Let’s recap what has been…
