I have spent many years teaching in higher education in Austria and in the United Kingdom. I have supervised undergraduate students, students at master’s level students and PhDs degrees. I have often noticed that writing blocks, procrastination and loneliness can make working for any degree a special kind of hell. However, there are ways to deal with these situations. Some techniques can help with the initial anxiety that lies behind any writer’s block (just write what comes to mind and then edit afterwards) and procrastination (allow yourself one act of procrastination per day/writing session e.g. washing up the dishes and then write 200 words).
A lot of students find the loneliness that comes with doing a degree – especially at Master’s level or at PhD level – very difficult to deal with. Again, there are ways of dealing with this: join a gym or a singing class and make sure you have a social circle of people who are not doing a degree at the same time. Find some volunteer work or join a charity.
Sometimes, though, none of these techniques help and we spend hours googling how to overcome procrastination, which is in itself procrastination. In these cases, we can explore what lies behind these acts of self-sabotage with a trained counsellor. So, please, do get in touch, I am here to help you!
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