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Oct 16, 2025

How to Ease into The Indescribable Beauty (and Announcement)

9 Practical Tips to Make Meditation Easier Than Ever

How to Ease into The Indescribable Beauty (and Announcement)

Yixue Zhao, PhD

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Feb 6

A CS PhD’s Occupational Therapy Journey — (2) Time Management

This draft has been sitting in my Medium account for a few years now. The reason I never felt like writing about “Time Management” is…

A CS PhD’s Occupational Therapy Journey — (2) Time Management

Yixue Zhao, PhD

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Dec 20, 2025

Everyone is Deeply Confused

The secret sauce to beating imposter syndrome

Everyone is Deeply Confused

Yixue Zhao, PhD

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Nov 27, 2025

Welcome to Happiness Buffet!

Inspired by a major mental breakdown during my PhD, I was determined to find my happiness…

Welcome to Happiness Buffet!

Yixue Zhao, PhD

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Sep 7, 2025

Life is a Game — And You Can Unlock Easy Mode 🎮✨

In 2021, I attended my very first on-site silent meditation retreat at Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center in Missouri, USA. I was skeptical at…

Life is a Game — And You Can Unlock Easy Mode 🎮✨

Yixue Zhao, PhD

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Aug 16, 2024

From Zero to One: Lessons Learned on Bringing African Students to International Conferences

The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) is a milestone ICSE and will be forever cherished in my heart. For…

From Zero to One: Lessons Learned on Bringing African Students to International Conferences

Yixue Zhao, PhD

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Jul 4, 2023

How I Sit for 8 Hours in Meditation

For those who know me, I have an annual tradition to go to a 10-day silent meditation retreat during the summer. This is my top 1 priority…

How I Sit for 8 Hours in Meditation

Yixue Zhao, PhD

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Mar 30, 2023

Academia, Industry, and Everything in between.

Quick note for International Students: First, let’s get the “urgent” issue out of the way. :) As of early 2023 when this article is…

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Oct 26, 2022

A CS PhD’s Occupational Therapy Journey — (1) Stress Management

This article is part of a blog series. You can find the table of content in the preface here [ Preface Link ]. My intended audience is PhD…

A CS PhD’s Occupational Therapy Journey — (1) Stress Management

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Oct 26, 2022

A CS PhD’s Occupational Therapy Journey — Preface

There’s a joke saying the easiest way to piss off a PhD student is to ask “how’s your research going” 😂 Well, this can be true…

A CS PhD’s Occupational Therapy Journey — Preface

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