Read ChemE Fellow, Arjav Shah’s, essay, which was published in Science, about launching peer co-working sessions for grad students in his department who were preparing their thesis proposals:
It was 10 p.m. on a winter night in Boston and I was sitting in my department’s common lounge, staring at a blank Word document. My thesis proposal deadline loomed. I hadn’t written a word, despite weeks of thinking. Earlier that evening, when I met another Ph.D. student, Sachin, for our regular monthly dinner, he was equally stuck—buried under the weight of a fellowship application. So, we made a pact: After dinner, we would sit together, laptops open, phones away, no excuses. It was the spark I needed to finally start writing.
Read the rest of the article here.