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In the old days, the PhD was just a lone scholar with a supervisor. That situation created a lot of dependence and power imbalance. Nowadays, the
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700 active research supervisors provide support to post/graduate students in University College Dublin. 17 of them took part in the second out of five
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Does holiday work pay off? If you find answering this question difficult, my experience and benefits that I see in working on a holiday may help you.I
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Culture shock is defined by Wikipedia as the “difficulty people have adjusting to a new culture that differs markedly from their
Going home
West coast and East coast of the U.S. are very different, people always told me. West coast was my home for 6 months - spring and summer. At the