In the 3 months that I have been involved in a PhD at Åbo Akademi University, I have come to the conclusion that just the act of pursuing a PhD in Finland warrants keeping a blog about it.
Because Finland is right on the opposite end of the spectrum of all cultures I have experienced so far. This inevitably also shows up in how one organization, or one group, does research. I find it quite interesting how these “cultural” differences can dictate how you approach a scientific problem, and how you interact with the system and people around you.
This can make for topics interesting enough to make it worth it to drop the research process once in a while to document the experiences.
But then again, the PhD process itself can be full of ups and downs, and well, blogging is the obvious way to go about it for me.
So here’s to doctoring through a Finnish PhD, and writing about it.