Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Doing PhD is a Pressure
I hope those who have gone through this process should agree with me. Though I am newbie and in my early stage of my PhD, can feel the heat of pressure from now. Sometimes I think about what are the best possible answers of few of my queries: what are the perfect academic features a person should have to start a PhD; should he/she start as single or married; how much time should a person spend on research everyday; how many free-days should he enjoy in week and month and year; how to mange personal life and research side by side; and a lot such question.
I have passed one year and eight months of my PhD candidature and only one year and four months left. Need to achieve a lot by this time; i.e. at least another two good conference papers, at least two journals need to be submitted. Huh, so far I have only one conference paper got published but quality is not so good. Now it appears to be a pain in the head that destruct my normal day to day activities. Sometimes it tries to tell me that you are very unlucky and you are not going to get anything from your life.
Marriage sometimes leads to pressure too as all on a sudden you are changing your living style. You are starting two separate lives- your personal life which includes your work, your interest, your hobby and your family life which include sharing tasks with your partner. Now the most tough part is to make a balance between these two. If any one of these two lives tries to take over the other then equilibrium breaks down and life becomes a burden. Neither you nor your partner can hang longer in this situation. This situation occurs without much of your knowledge.
I have passed one year and eight months of my PhD candidature and only one year and four months left. Need to achieve a lot by this time; i.e. at least another two good conference papers, at least two journals need to be submitted. Huh, so far I have only one conference paper got published but quality is not so good. Now it appears to be a pain in the head that destruct my normal day to day activities. Sometimes it tries to tell me that you are very unlucky and you are not going to get anything from your life.
Marriage sometimes leads to pressure too as all on a sudden you are changing your living style. You are starting two separate lives- your personal life which includes your work, your interest, your hobby and your family life which include sharing tasks with your partner. Now the most tough part is to make a balance between these two. If any one of these two lives tries to take over the other then equilibrium breaks down and life becomes a burden. Neither you nor your partner can hang longer in this situation. This situation occurs without much of your knowledge.
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