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Life as PhD student

Ever wondered what it feels like to work on something as crazy as a PhD in Natural Sciences? Or how you get to do polar research? Find some personal insights on our work here.

Dear Reader, Sorry about the delay. The Internet connexion on board is not fast, it is the reality of field trip work! This week we want to offer you some beautiful pictures taken by Aleksei. He is currently on a cruise on the Maria S Merian in the north Atlantic […]

Greetings from the ship!

May 17, 2018 in Getting out there / Images / Life as PhD student / The Archive by Aleksei Buinyi

Taken from my diary during my trip from Montreal (Quebec) to Inuvik and Aklavik (Northwest Territories) in March 2018 for my PhD Day 2 – March 5th 2018 – Edmonton to Inuvik When I told my friends, colleagues, people I met randomly at the airport just the time to exchange few […]

A northern visit

May 7, 2018 in Getting out there / Life as PhD student / The Archive by Jade Falardeau

Did you think scientific conferences are only for established researchers? Or for PhD students that are about to finish and really have something to present? But not for you, who might not even think about their first publication because you’re still missing some additional data and the final “amazing” conclusion? […]

The Motivational Effect of a Scientific Conference

April 17, 2018 in Life as PhD student / Short stories / The Archive by Lina Madaj

2006, 10th grade: Me getting the worst possible grade in our Maths exam. 2007, 11th grade: Me getting rid of Physics as soon as possible. 2008, 12th grade: Me and three friends in a Maths exam, receiving as many points combined as the best girl in class alone. 2018: Me […]

Changing to the dark side: How I ended up in ...

April 3, 2018 in Life as PhD student / The Archive by Valentin Ludwig

After hearing how it ends, it’s your right, dear reader of the ArcTrain blog, to ask how it begins. After Lera’s text (https://arctrain.de/finishing-up-a-phd-thesis/), I’m now worried that I will not give you a text with as much wisdom. But after all, I’m only in the beginning of this PhD, maybe […]

Starting up a PhD

August 1, 2017 in Life as PhD student / The Archive by Damien Ringeisen

Since many of the first ArcTrainees are coming close to the end of the 3 year PhD period, I thought this post would be pretty ’aktuell’ (since we are in Germany). It is not a truly pleasant topic, and not everybody likes to talk about it. Still, I think it […]

Finishing up a PhD thesis

May 22, 2017 in Life as PhD student / The Archive by Valeriia Kirillova

Thought a PhD was all about sitting at you desk? Working in the lab? Think again. Part of your job, as a scientist, is to branch out into the big wide world and present your work to other people. Other scientists. Scary huh? In the beginning…yes, probably. I had very […]

The Scientific Conference

October 4, 2016 in Life as PhD student / What's happening? / The Archive by Rebecca Jackson