Tag: jessa blog
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“My desk is so messy,” I said out loud. “It’s okay. No one’s gonna nag about it,” my husband said. But he’s wrong. Someone will. And that someone’s me. A while ago, I listened to Dr. Vikki Wright of The PhD Life Coach talk about being a responsible parent to ourselves. And as a PhD…
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It took me some time to find my classroom, because the room I was looking for was somehow hidden from view, and I was probably overwhelmed and mentally skipped the sequence of numbers: 3109 should follow 3108. It must be the ‘first class’ jitters. Being 30 minutes early helped me acclimate, but as the door…
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Since I read about Hugh Howey from Seth Godin’s blog post, I subscribed to his blog and been reading him since. Then on August 2026, he wrote about a distraction-free writing tool he built which is free to download and use forever. It doesn’t need you to be online and won’t require you to create…
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Wow has it been six years already! If you’ve just recently subscribed to my blog, you may not know that I have started this domain while I was locked down in my apartment during the pandemic. Check my first blog post here. Many of us probably have started many things back then, like how I…
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So I just had my first week as a PhD student and I was way too obvious with how overwhelmed I was. Somewhere between asking about deadlines and milestones that did not exist yet, a colleague told me I was thinking about the ‘traditional PhD.’ Well, what is the ‘traditional PhD?’ It’s about having a…
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Back in 2019, I found myself talking with a conference attendee’s PhD supervisor from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, who was then trying to convince me to pursue a PhD, saying it would push me to become someone I never thought I am capable of being. At the time, the idea of pursuing PhD…