Article Summary: I’m not ADHD but I have multiple symptoms of the disorder. I get distracted VERY easily! I began taking Adderall before my freshman year of undergrad Adderall allowed me to read books (which was almost impossible in the past) It also allowed me to study an unnatural amount of hours Reading is hard! Listen here! Attention Deficit pseudo-Disorder …Read or listen to the rest
Reading is HARD
Paper money
Article Summary Publishing papers are very important to your graduate career in science. Papers basically define you as a scientist. I was terrified about writing my first paper so I used hip-hop to psych me up to overcome my writing anxiety. Hip-hop would psych me up and it gave me the encouragement to write. When I was scared to write, …Read or listen to the rest
PhD me… Please? part 3
Article Summary My second year of grad school was a roller coaster of emotion. Your second year of grad school can be defined by its comprehensive exam. If you fail this exam two times than you get KICKED OUT of school. I passed the written part of my comprehensive exam but failed the oral defense part! I began to HATE …Read or listen to the rest
My brain: the ‘slow’ parts. Part 1. I don’t read right.
Article Summary: I am a terrible, horrible, no-good, stinky reader (I rank in the bottom 15th percentile)! In this post I provide examples of how I perceive words and sentences. The objective of this post is to give my readers without LD an idea of how difficult reading can be for those of us with LD and also demonstrate to …Read or listen to the rest