If you have been familiar with a job interview, you can predict what you are going to be asked. PhD interviews are taken by the heads of the department and supervisors. The purpose of an interview is to know about your academic background, the suitability of your personality to conduct research, motivation and career goals. […]

“I was just the lucky one” is the statement given by a researcher who has submitted his dissertation and has been complimented by readers and a panel of judges.  It is the group of experts in the field who has read the dissertation and approved it to be very good. But, the majority of the […]

I suffered, like other scholars during my PhD. The daily grind of moving to various classes and getting exposed to innumerable new things and experiments and procedures in the lab was no less than suffering. Sometimes the journey became so overwhelming that I felt in needed inspiration to continue further. I started to look at […]