The elusive work/life balance
I’ve spoken about work life balance before and how I have to work hard to maintain it. Recently the issue of overworking in research science (and by all researchers, STEM or otherwise) has been brought up due to a recently published article on the Science website called “Getting noticed is half the battle”, it was […]
While the Undergrads are away…
So today is the last day of term for the undergrads but University life goes on for the rest of us, admittedly much more quietly, but still we’re here working away. I’ll be here for another week and then I’ve booked off 2 weeks for Christmas. I’m only actually using 2 days of annual leave (of the 24/year […]
Hitting the ground running…
I think it’s fair to say I didn’t exactly hit the ground running when I got back to work on Wednesday. I spent a fair amount of the morning doing some of that productive procrastination i.e. looking at travel options for a conference I’m attending in June. Overall an important task, at some point I’ll need to […]
The things you never learn as a PhD student
Campus has gone quiet again with the arrival of the Easter holidays, althought definitely not as quiet as it was at Christmas, I’m taking an educated guess that there may be a fair few final year students hanging around getting a head start in the library before their final dissertation hand ins and exams. I […]
Empty corridors
It is pretty quiet around campus now. So while all the undergraduates are busy writing about finishing deadlines and heading home life is a bit different in PhD land, mostly because I am still here at my desk on campus. A PhD is much more like a job, I usually do 9-5 (often more, like […]
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