A Bright Christmas #23 In this short post, I want to encourage you to love this year. I assume that millions of people in the world wished to live through the year 2020 differently. They would like to have stronger health, more travelling, less stress, more hugs, and more freedom to live. Someone may think… Read More Forget about an unlived life
A Bright Christmas #20 At the end of last year, I made a bunch of New Year’s resolutions for 2020. As crazy as it may sound, I managed quite many of them (such as defending my thesis, yes!), including the plan to go camping for one night every month. Little did I know at the… Read More Highlights of the year of a happy camper
A Bright Christmas #18 Since March, my daily routine has practically been the same: wake up, set up my desk for the working day, and then keep on working until lunch, take a break and a short walk outside, and then repeat until it’s time to close the laptop and store all work-related items in… Read More An alternative home-office: discovering Sweden during the pandemic
A Bright Christmas #17 “I feel stressed.”“I feel overwhelmed.”“I feel lost.”“I feel I am not achieving what I should.”“Am I working hard enough?”“Is it normal to feel this way?”“It is hard to get to know my new colleagues during covid time.” Do some of these questions sound familiar to you? I am certain they do.… Read More Tips and joys from being a mentor
A Bright Christmas #16 This year, I was able to focus on my health, both mentally and physically. It all started with a little bit of crowdsourcing from my friends during my vacation on what 30-day challenge I can take on. It was from a couple of friends’ recommendations that I started my 30 days… Read More Every little thing goes a long way
A Bright Christmas #15. Life goes on, even during the pandemic. In 2020 the world welcomed approximately 300 new researchers graduating from the doctoral program at Karolinska Institutet. In this podcast you will hear the questions a “PhD-soon-to-be”, Yildiz Kelahmetoglu, has for two “new PhDs” Oksana Goroshchuk and Joanne Bakker, who defended their PhD thesis… Read More The light at the end of the PhD tunnel
A Bright Christmas #14 One of the highlights of my PhD has been the wonderful people I have met on the way and the network I have been able to build. It took me forever to write the acknowledgments of my PhD thesis, as I really wanted to thank the many, many people who helped… Read More “We are all in this together”
A Bright Christmas #13 Screens and keyboards may have taken over, but they still have a long way to catch up with the sentiment of a handwritten card. At least for me. (: Today, technology took over all our communications. How many emails you send everyday? Texts? However, there is still a virtue in connecting… Read More Send a raven
A Bright Christmas #12 What kind of music do you listen to these days? I found out that during the pandemic I had two modes: a) Dance break (swinging between cheesy pop hits to some jazz) b) Instrumental music (preferably piano, if not, Vitamin String Quartet) During one of my late-night thesis writing sessions, I… Read More Spiegel im Spiegel – Infinite reflections
A Bright Christmas #11 Exploring Research at a Cosmetics Company Following my curiosity on how much my friends and colleagues at KI enjoy their industry internships promoted by Career Service, today I bring you the Positive Experience from Evangelia Tserga during her month at Oriflame 😉 “I believe that this internship gives the opportunity to… Read More Positive Experience at Oriflame
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