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The aftermath of quitting my PhD

A few months ago, I ended up leaving my Ph.D. program with my Masters degree (biochemistry) after failing my first round qualifying exam. I realized that I was ruining my mental health, hated being in the lab, and didn't enjoy the academic setting. So, in May, I decided to leave the PhD program and get a non-thesis based Masters instead.

Anyone else feel like life is passing you by?

I started this PhD newly single in my mid 20s. By the time I'm finished in 2 years, I'll be 31.

I'm not that ambitious. Can anyone else relate?

I'm starting grad school (urban planning) in less than a month and I've come to the conclusion that I'm just not that ambitious of a person. As I am preparing, I see the people in my program practically killing themselves just to cram experience into their resume or get access to that connection of a connection of a connection.

Mentally out of shape

It feels like a hiking trip, but you're going slower than the rest of the group. They wait for you but at the same time rest. Meanwhile you're exhausted when you catch up with them. You don't feel like you deserve any rest, the expedition starts shortly after and you're struggling even more.

I submitted my first research article in my life (with primary authorship) before I graduate with my Masters in 4 months!!! (Nervous as heck and terrified of what the editors of the journal will say...)

The article has been a long time coming. The original conceit for the research was turned in as an assignment back in March and since then I expanded the concept to a higher degree within a month and started writing since May.

Do you ever feel its become more about paying for it and not the learning?

First yr student with a GA stipend and reduced tuition and I feel like I'm so busy trying to budget my stipend, tuition, rent, savings, and expenses with a semester payment plan and doing my best not to take out loans that I don't even have time be excited about classes. I feel like I'm more worried about paying for it than actually doing it.

Is SciHub a good thing or a bad thing?

It's blocked at my university and I was just wondering what the general consensus is about this website. Happy Saturday.

People without surnames, what do you publish as?

Just curious. I don’t have a surname; my name is in the form [given name] [child of] [father’s name], and I publish as [given name] [father’s name]. What do other people do?

How important are journal publications, really?

Disclaimer: not trying to come across as arrogant or entitled, just trying to work out where I'm going wrong.

Is Stealing Ideas Common in Academia? Should I be Worried About Potential Theft?

I am attending my first conference this week, and yesterday I attended a poster session and stopped by one that belonged to an RA of a lab quite similar to mine. I was pretty excited to meet someone that's more of a "colleague" to me, since most attendees are professors/postdocs/PhD students and I was quite overwhelmed.

Depressed over mistakes in master's thesis

So this week I successfully completed my master's thesis and I'm preparing myself for the defence that scheduled to take place in a couple of days. I was going over my paper and I noticed two mistakes re the interpretation of a the P-value under a null hypothesis in my paper.

How on earth do you write a PhD research proposal? (Humanities)

I apologise for the melodrama - but I literally have no idea. Currently, I'm trying to put together an 1000-word proposal to apply for grad school, stating the research aims, significance, structure etc. for my prospective PhD. On the face of it, this shouldn't be too hard. And I've done well in research tasks before. But I am struggling.

How much choice do you have in where your job is as a professor?

Hello everyone! I'm a current undergraduate student studying physics and math, but planning to continue into grad school by studying atmospheric science. I'm strongly considering a career in academia as I believe I would love the balance between performing research and teaching students.