Category: Education

A small confession: when I was writing my own dissertation, I lost one entire month of August to a heady combination of over-ripe peaches, second-rate mystery novels and a home-organization project that resulted in exactly zero new pages written. If you’ve just looked up from your own summer detours, increasingly aware that your dissertation hasn’t been cracked opened since June…I get it. I’ve been on both sides of this fence: the doctoral student trying to remember in September what her dissertation research questions were and the dissertation coach gently (or not so gently) guiding students back into the autumn scholarly fold.