2/N Quarters In PhD

Nina Lutz
8 min readMar 23, 2024

A continuation from my first post and a part of my goal to have some element of reflection at the end of each quarter and before the next.

My advisor insisted that I am in a very generative phase. In all honesty, I believe her — I learned a lot this quarter, but it’s hard to not feel like I’m not doing enough.

I think the theme of this quarter was “WHAT am I doing?” or just abbreviated to “WHAT”.

Firstly, I started this quarter having COVID. Not the funnest start. This had a domino effect that basically made my January not great. First, it…

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