DR. KATHERINE S. CHO

Self reflective questions to ask yourself because writing means knowing yourself and your habits... 

• What time of day do you work best? (The evening? Morning? After 2AM?)
• Where are you most productive? What are the environmental conditions needed for you to be most productive?
• What are you writing goals? (Are they based on finishing an outlined section, meeting a page limits, hitting a word count, etc.?) ​

​When answering these questions, try to think of it outside and away from the times you operated under a deadline. Adrenaline is powerful so people who are usually larks (or early morning workers) can become owls (i.e. late night workers) when a due date is just around the corner~~

I have finished my coursework, so thankfully, I will not be writing (another) class paper any time soon. However, one thing I realized over the course of this year is that class papers and conference proposals differ quite a bit. ​

Here are some lessons learned in how I've translated my class papers to conference papers~

I often joke the PhD application process is easily in my top 5 of most trying times, which also includes a time I had bed bugs for a year.

But all jokes aside, my PhD application process was filled with a lot of doubt, questions, and concerns. It’s a big decision to make and after making it, can be hard to navigate through the applications.