Nothing quite compares to the feeling of uploading your master’s dissertation to the submission portal of your university.

With this, my master’s degree in the UK ends. A year abroad ends. A year of speaking a foreign language day and night, in personal interaction and professional academia. A year of living in London – and what a city it is, ancient and maddening and incomparably breathtaking.

Now, I am free from everything for the littlest while. Until the PhD begins. We all need a last break to recharge and focus before we continue our ascent.

I can’t wait to see what else lies ahead in this world for me.

a PhD in the future. || 11th of April, 2018.

I took the PhD offer in Canada.

I’ll be moving across an entire ocean to a country whose language I am not a native speaker of, and I’ll start pursuing my PhD in autumn, funded.

It’s mindblowing, I still can’t breathe yet, but this is it. This is where I’m going to go and who I’m going to be.

Moving abroad for my current studies was one of the most exciting and adventurous decisions I’ve ever made. I have not the faintest idea where else except to one of the best universities worldwide this will take me – as a writer, a human, as someone who aims for the moon and hopes for stars, too, along the way.

And I’m absolutely thrilled to earth and hell to find out.

a PhD offer, Canada. || 21st of March, 2018.

so that happened. wow. wow. uhm. how do I process this (I don’t, that’s how).

I’ve been admitted to a PhD program in Canada. I’m in. I could go there.

hah. it hasn’t really sunk in yet? I haven’t fully realized? and I don’t know if I’ll go because the stipend is – I don’t know if I can live off of that and there’s other factors but oh. my. god.

I have a PhD offer.

today in “the universe fucks with me”: getting notified that a decision about one of my PhD applications has been made, but still having to wait for the email with the actual outcome of the decision – @ Schrödinger, bloody fuckén fight me.

Share your PhD experiences.

Dear internet,

I am currently in my masters degree. After graduating, I’d like to pursue a PhD. Please share your own PhD experiences with me (either as a reply or reblog to this post, or in my tumblr inbox – anon or not).

Question in particular that I am interested in (no need to answer all!):

– your subject area/research topic
– country of your PhD institution (and would you recommend it?)
– (expected) duration of your PhD
– reasons you do a PhD
– what you like most about the experience
– obstacles and problems you have encountered
– estimated hours per week that you dedicate to your research
– estimated amount of free time you are able to take for yourself
– how stressful you find the experience

I’m looking forward to really interesting reports. Answer whatever you feel comfortable with – I won’t publish any of the asks you submit to me, though I will possibly reply to you via chat if you add to the message that that’s alright with you.

Thank you kindly!