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…
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[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…
[Saturday, December 29] How I got a professional website
If this week could be summed up in one word, it would be “professionalization”! Let’s review this last week of 2018. Of course, it began with Christmas! But I’m in Asia, so I just cooked some food for three people, we ate, we drank white wine, and that’s all! It’s just a day like the…
[Friday, December 15] I’m still alive!
A lot of things happened these last two months, I don’t even know where to begin! After I attended the conference, I had a lot of ideas, and most of all, a lot of inspiration. So I talked to my supervisors, who told me to go ahead! This is how, in two months, I finished…
[Tuesday, October 23] What a conference!
I have been the whole weekend to the best conference I have ever attended! Ok, I need to adjust a little bit what I said. First, it’s only the second conference I have actively attended, strictly speaking. Second, it began last Friday, and ended today with a surprise workshop. Let’s first recap this week. It…
[Tuesday, October 16] Back to the marathon
I think last week has been the most tiring, and the most productive of my PhD so far. Let’s recap in order. I had my first meeting with my two advisors at the same time last Tuesday. I was so stressed, and had a lot of questions at the same time. What I was the…
[Monday, October 08] A week full of work
October has come, and the weather is finally getting colder here (well, 24 to 28 degrees Celsius, which may be seen as a pretty good temperature in my hometown!). This week has been kind of contrasted. It took me much more time that I thought to set up the pilot test for my upcoming experiment….
[Sunday, September 30] Nothing went as planned, and it was not so bad
This week can be summarized in one sentence: Nothing went as planned. But it has been a great week though. I wanted to go back to the lab on Tuesday, after the short trip to the South of Taiwan. But I was too tired, I had to stay at home. I have to confess that…
[Tuesday, September 25] Have a break, go on a trip
It has been a tiring week, especially on Thursday. The day before, I had to prepare my presentation for the neurolinguistics seminar, and to make it as detailed as possible. This seminar lasts for 3 hours, and we are only two officialy registered students. Then, each of us has to present for one to one…
