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Surviving Your Honours Year
Honours is a state of flux. You’re either honing skills in research, initiative, and commitment in order to appeal to potential employers, or you’re fostering relationships, good impressions, and connections with potential PhD supervisors. Hanging over your head the whole time is the knowledge that, ultimately, if all goes to plan, someone will eventually need […]
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What’s Next? Post University Choices.
You’ve handed in your last assignment. You’ve paid off any debts you owe to the university. Once the grades are in, you’ve officially left your university career behind you. So, what comes next? What answers can you give the kindly-yet-annoyingly-persistent questions of your closest friends and family?
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Postgraduate Opportunities
You’re wrapping up the last moments of your undergraduate experience. Maybe you’re writing your Honours thesis, the due date looming before you, and your family are interrogating you about what’s next. You realise you have no idea what you want to do with your life and decide you’re not ready to leave the warm, comforting […]
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Working from Home
I work from home full time; as a postgraduate, I have no classes and no contact hours. My only colleague comes in the form of a four-legged, overly needy hound who often sits at my feet and whines until he gets attention. While I don’t struggle with the isolation—I have a housemate, the aforementioned pup, […]
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Honours Year + Postgraduate Study – How Does It Work?
It’s coming towards the end of term 3 and exams are looming. It’s around this time of year that I begin to ponder my future, and given that I am now half-way through my bachelor’s degree, I have been looking into doing honours, and my potential future as an academic is less of a far-off-into-the-distance […]
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