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Month: September 2016

4 tips on how to make writing your thesis proposal a bit easier.

Lessons Learned From Proposing My Thesis: Writing

September 27, 2016September 28, 2016 sauvikGrad life

Once you’ve got your committee sorted, it’s time to get to work. You’ll need to write up a document and then present it to your committee. But, you already know that. Really, the first step is to discuss your plans with your committee. I’m going to assume you’ve done that already because I’m probably not […]

A reflective post on things I learned about committee selection as I went through the process of proposing my thesis.

Lessons Learned From Proposing My Thesis: Committee Selection

September 17, 2016 sauvikGrad life

I proposed my thesis in March of 2016. So, I am now ABD (“all-but-dissertation”) and it’s awesome — I genuinely have no work responsibility apart from Research. Still, it was nerve-racking getting to this point. I remember clearly being on the other side of the proposal and thinking of it as a wildling thinks of […]

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