Making research 🧫🧪more enjoyable

Jan 10 2022

I have recently been hitting a bit of a roadblock regarding doing research for my field of study in the future, psychiatry. My father is a Psychiatrist—partly the reason I want to go into it in the first-place—and we are working on presenting at an international conference coming up about lifestyle interventions with various mental illnesses. I do innately enjoy discovering new things and the process of finding evidence in the process of research, but lately I have been wanting to change things up a bit.

I changed the font size from 12pt Times New Roman to 18 pt Comics Cans (drastic, I know). Furthermore, I then zoomed in on the Word doc so that it took up more of my screen. These changes made me focus on text in smaller chunks at a time, and those changes helped me add a little at a time, kind of like in the anki method. Things generally seem less daunting when taken one step at a time.

I have also been using the citation tool Mendeley with MS Word to great effect. It is not perfect by any means, but the desktop version, despite looking like it is a program Bill Gates designed in the 2000s, works remarkably well, and it's free! Whoop whoop!