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Announcement: Why This Series and What It Is About
An introduction to a series on postgraduate psychology study: how academic training becomes a test of maturity, personal transformation, and a path toward defending a dissertation.
9/2/2025
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Graduate School
A cycle about my experience in graduate studies in general psychology: developing new skills, working with academic tasks, and building scientific thinking.
Announcement: Why This Series and What It Is AboutGraduate school is a space of research discipline where personal interest meets academic requirements and methodology. The cycle captures texts about scientific inquiry, professional growth, and real experience with research work.
It is a place to reflect on how a scientific stance is formed and what challenges accompany this path.
Used for publications about graduate progress, research tasks, literature reading, methodology, and personal conclusions about scientific work.
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What I came from: study, barracks, courses, kitchen
What I came from: study, barracks, courses, kitchen: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.
9/3/2025
A book begins with an idea, a dissertation with a plan
A book begins with an idea, a dissertation with a plan: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.
9/5/2025
Double optics: structure and chaos, science and insomnia
Double optics: structure and chaos, science and insomnia: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.
9/9/2025
Beyond Academic Writing. Part 1
Beyond Academic Writing. Part 1: a reflection on how correction, academic discourse, and standards can drain life from a text — and why balance still matters.
9/11/2025
Beyond Academic Writing. Part 2
The second part of the essay on academic writing: how rhythm, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, and changes of tempo can bring living thought back into a scientific text.
9/13/2025
Beyond Academic Writing. Part 3
The third part of the essay on academic writing: moving beyond the sterility of scientific language toward a living style, Bourdieu, and one's own intellectual voice.
9/18/2025
The Value of Sterility, or How to Survive Academia
A post about the value of academic sterility: how dry scientific style teaches discipline, precision, self-restraint, and survival in academia.
9/18/2025
When a PhD reads rap
When a PhD reads rap: Anton Kolhonen reflects on unusual style, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.
9/20/2025
Postgraduate studies and Bitcoin: is there a link?
Postgraduate studies and Bitcoin: is there a link? Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.
9/23/2025
Personal brand as a design project of the self
Personal brand as a design project of the self: Anton Kolhonen reflects on personal brand, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.
9/25/2025
The people without whom it would not have worked
The people without whom it would not have worked: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.
9/28/2025
Postgraduate study as a mirror of self-knowledge
Postgraduate study as a mirror of self-knowledge: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.
10/17/2025
An Ode to Specialization, or Why One Person Should Not Do Everything
A post about specialization, intellectual overload, and the limits of competence: why one person should not do everything in complex projects.
9/7/2025
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