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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 About

Graduate 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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Anton Kolhonen smiles while seated at a desk in medical attire.

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

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
What I Came From: Study, Barracks, Courses, Kitchen

What I Came From: Study, Barracks, Courses, Kitchen

A personal text about first education, barracks, courses, and kitchen work as experiences that shaped character before doctoral study and professional choice.

9/3/2025

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
A book begins with an idea, a dissertation with a plan

A book begins with an idea, a dissertation with a plan

A post about dissertations and academic planning: why a book begins with an idea, while research requires structure, a route, and a clear working form.

9/5/2025

NotesGraduate School🪡 Skills, Methods, Techniques
Researcher at a desk between monochrome structure and colorful chaos

Double Optics: Structure and Chaos, Science and Insomnia

A post about doctoral study between structure and chaos: research, insomnia, discipline, and the search for one's own scholarly lens.

9/9/2025

NotesGraduate School🌓 Dark and Light Side of Personality
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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

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
Running figures, a classical bust, and a coloured stream of musical notes in a university hall.

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

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
A researcher stands between a library staircase and a stream of mechanisms, colour, and musical notes.

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

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
A lone figure walks through a golden library hall among books and symbols of science.

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

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
A researcher in headphones writes among a microphone, books, and musical notes

When a PhD reads rap

A post at the intersection of academic thinking and rap: how scientific discipline, rhythm, and living language can coexist in one authorial voice.

9/20/2025

NotesGraduate School✴️ Unusual Style
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Postgraduate Study and Bitcoin: Is There a Connection?

A post about the connection between postgraduate study and blockchain: how academic structure, research discipline, and systems thinking can help make sense of cryptocurrencies.

9/23/2025

NotesGraduate School🪡 Skills, Methods, Techniques
A researcher writes among books, formulas, and a divided human silhouette

Personal brand as a design project of the self

A post about personal branding as a design project of the self: how postgraduate study teaches self-presentation, identity formation, and the deliberate construction of a professional image.

9/25/2025

NotesGraduate School⛳️ Effectiveness
A young researcher writes as mentors support him from behind

The people without whom it would not have happened

The people without whom it would not have happened: a text of gratitude to those without whom the long path through postgraduate study could not have been completed.

9/28/2025

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
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Postgraduate Study as a Mirror of Self-Knowledge

Postgraduate Study as a Mirror of Self-Knowledge: the final post in the “Postgraduate Study” cycle. Rather than simply summing things up, it looks back at the road from a distance.

10/17/2025

NotesGraduate School❗️ Top Ideas
Anton Kolhonen holds his printed dissertation against an evening street in Saint Petersburg.

The Day an Idea Became a Physical Object

The Day an Idea Became a Physical Object: a personal reflection on how an idea turns into structure, a document, and something you can finally hold in your hands.

11/17/2025

NotesGraduate School⚛️ Science and Psychology
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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

NotesGraduate School🪡 Skills, Methods, Techniques
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