Comment on Dear Dr. Nelson, by A. Nelson

You are most welcome, dear Najla! There’s so much in that last sentence…I will be thinking about your carefully chosen qualities of “meaningful learning” for a long time. Thank you for that, and for all you did to create and build the community that nourished our learning this semester. I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with this group!

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Comment on Have I lost my empathy? by A. Nelson

What an important and powerful reminder, Akin. We humans are a diverse and interesting lot. Appreciating that fact by recognizing the validity of different perspectives and experiences keeps us humble as individuals and helps cultivate the compassion and empathy we badly need if we are going to get this broken world to a better place. Thank you for this.

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Comment on To PhD or not to Phd by Adrian

I am sure we all PhD students have similar concerns as you. The way I look to the PhD is like a job I got for a 3-4 year period which was my own choice, it is happy on the sense that it is what I choose to do. Under this perspective, I question myself permanently if a regular person at any job is always happy or sad with their job?. Well, for sure not sad, at least the majority, a good amount will be happy, and maybe a good number of people will feel between happy and satisfied with their job; so, one of the last two is the path where I want to be while doing the PhD and after that. It is a constant battle in my brain until get used to this idea, but at least keeping this as a goal gives me hope.

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I agree! Communication is crucially important. I t…

I agree! Communication is crucially important. I too love the quote you stated above - we have to be able to explain what we do and WHY...to anyone. At any time. It think it's far too easy to get wrapped up in what's going on and forget about the importance of outreach - not just that outreach exists but HOW to actually disseminate that information to others in a useful and meaningful way.
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