Hello friend 🤗 My name is Kaelyn and I am a California born, London based, Entrepreneur & Historian creating content about my life (work, life in London, history research & writing, books, etc) and the things I find most fascinating (history & popular culture, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, productivity, etc) and would love if you joined me on this wild ride 🐴 (pun intended because I am also a horse girl)✨
After listening to your chat/update in the field, I see a lot of similarities between your and my journey in the PhD. I reached my burnout almost leave point 1.5 years in and had to start setting hard boundaries and rules for myself to protect my free time, mental health, and maintain my love of research.
Wow, you are doing a lot! I also just posted a video about finishing my Master's thesis while working full-time. PhD is on another level, lol. Wish you good luck. :)
I’m very happy that you show your reality as it is. I believe you’re absolutely right about having a day off a week being non negotiable and that it actually helps you to be more productive. It is difficult for me to disconnect and have had to work a lot on myself to understand that it actually helps me. Also, thanks to you as an inspiration I am back to horse riding which I left when I started my undergrad and was never able to get back to for economical reasons. I now ride twice a week and am happier and healthier than ever. Thanks
A doctorate is much harder than the general public might believe; it's complex, tedious, psychologically taxing and that's partially why merely 2% of Americans ever obtain these. Not sure about other countries, but keep your head up and your S.O.C.K. will be great, I'm sure because your subject matter helps pull the knowledge for the under represented demographic you're helping.... you're so close 🎉😊
My take away here is that managing life is actually rather personal, and there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Priorities, mental & physical health bandwidth, what brings us joy like hobbies, pastimes, relationships -- all incredibly personal. It's up to us to decide what we want to prioritize most, and where our boundaries are going to be. Which is something I've been in the process of re-structuring in my own life; pushing to finish the last year of undergrad and balance income streams/work experience (freelancing & starting content creation on the side) and mental/physical health. I won't sugar coat it or dismiss it as easy, but it's worth it to really narrow our focus a bit sometimes.
I find it incredible how your videos sync with events in my life. Your story is always relatable in a certain way and it feels like an online support when I am going through similar thoughts. Thank you for always being open!
Hey, I loved your vlog. This is Vijay (Hyderabad, India). I am planning to come to London for my further studies. I love the product manager role; is it MS or MBA? for me to land a PM role in London. which is better for me to choose. Please help me. I am not actually from the tech background. Does MBA land me a PM role, or should I do MS?
You are doing a lot. I hope you find your balance. ❤ Also my back would ache in that chair your sitting in too. Have you thought about getting a desk chair?
Thank you for sharing your journey! Yes, please (if you have time and want to!) do a video on how you annotate using your iPad. Always enjoy seeing/ learning about how people use technology on their studies! Hope you are having a good month of September.
Thank you so much for being real and showing us your way of dealing with everything! I agree you have to do want is right for you even though others may not understand! I have realised that this year! Your doing amazing and thank you!
Oh please talk more about the books you’ve been reading for pleasure! As a student who loves reading I think having balance is so important. I love TSITP I hope you loved book 3 as much as I did❤😊
Hi Kaelyn. Love your videos and how genuine you are. Yes, would love a video on your process for annotating articles on the iPad and what you do after that to go from that to using the info from that article for writing your dissertation. Thank you. 😊
@@KaelynGraceApple oh well, I'm not from London...but if you can let me know whenever you're open to hiring... I can work for longer, cheaper and my resume is pretty decent 🤝
I have loved observing the shift in energy from the previous vlog to this one - from doubts, fears and anxieties to a better place, emotionally-which is not to say that this progression is linear but that's also what's so real and wonderful about your vlogs - absolutely love watching them because all of this is not only relatable but also adds to perspective so thanks <3
<3 I am so glad you get that from my videos!! I love making them and this video felt like that return to my research I have been looking for over the past several months
Such a useful video! I’m trying to formulate my PhD topic in medieval history and it inspired me to remember things in history I was excited for most and may be use it to formulate my topic…
It's fitting that you end with the comment about ChatGPT because I did my bachelor's thesis in the spring, and we had to do an offense to someone else's thesis. The gave us some sample questions like asking about the focus of the paper, then there was another question about the aim. And I was like omg what *is* the difference. I was googling, asking AI, etc., but I think this video is good for anyone needing a really clear delineation between subject, topic, question, etc.--it does a much better job explaining it than ChatGPT did anyway!
This is a beneficial breakdown of research approaches. I am also in humanities, using visual culture to highlight women, welfare, secondary, and gendered economies through the lens of Dublin street trading in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It's imperative to choose a topic that sustains your curiosity if you want to maintain momentum during a PhD program.
I love, love these type of videos - thank you for filming it! I enjoy all of your videos but these are my favorite ❤ If you're making a list of future video topics, I wonder if you'd be interested in stepping back even further and talking about ways to FIND a research topic. I'm not a student: I'm a mom of 3 with plenty of student loans already. And still - I love researching and writing and want to create my own curriculum for learning. My challenge is that the possible topics feel so out of reach and hard to pin down. I'd love a video on how to decide on a topic and how to develop a self-learning curriculum for it.
I would rather not, otherwise I'd be stealing your thunder, and you are the people that are meant to get us out of this mess. I have a feeling that you don't have any more idea how to get us out of this mess than I do, though.
I love this video. I'm not in school anymore. But I'm going to keep these ideas in mind. Especially in my personal journaling & any other projects I might be doing. 💙👍
