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Seeing this I go through the different boxes and think "yep, been there, had to deal with that." twitter.com/ZJAyres/status…
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Also reminds me of what I wrote back in 2012: blog.mikiobraun.de/2012/01/what-i…
What it means to do a Ph.D. - psychologically
Most people who decide to do a Ph.D. are well aware that it will mean a lot of work. You have to learn a lot of new stuff, possibly also outside of...
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Sometimes it felt like actually developing strategies to deal with all these things is a big part of what you're learning while doing a Ph.D. Of course, there is often little support and you're more or less alone having to figure it all out, which is unnecessary suffering.
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I'd say the biggest cultural issue is that you often feel like you cannot admit struggling with any of these. Luckily through most of my academic time I was in a team of great people and there were always people you could be real with.
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At least, compared to some hoops corporate life makes you jump through, I'd say that doing a Ph.D. paid off for me personally. Then again, universities had decades to shape the process.