82 Memes That Might Convince You To Not Get That PhD If You’re Still On the Fence

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I feel like this could be about my entire life, not just my academic career XD

Upvote for Tom Scott!

You got this!

If you're studying for a PhD , you ain't got time for a relationship . . .

I'm doing this next time but what if they reply instantly?

If my experiment doesn't have a major bug then it's not publishable either, because all the published experiments have major bugs, and my experiment doesn't agree with them.

sshhhhhhhhh.

I mean it's not easy, but the way some people act you'd think that you need to be a genius to do it. In reality, it's long-term effort (a marathon, not a sprint). The difficulty lies in learning to be independent (which you eventually should anyway) and dealing with the fact that it's really long. Maybe I lucked out with my supervisor, but the hardest part for me is the administrative part of it! Also, the one thing that I think is a big reason why people regret or worry about doing a PhD is the lack of financial stability. Some people are genuine employees, but some (like me) are students with a scholarship, which could just disappear if I don't do well.

My family members ask me "When are you going to get a job?"

Check Shin Chan parody about Sailor Moofun... 😄

For me it was Reviewers 1, 2 and 4! They just used AI to generate an answer and it was so obvious. The question is, how do you answer that without telling them that they're full of s**t? Most of the questions had nothing to do with my article! Reviewer 3 was the best though and provided me with a 4 page report that helped me improve my work a lot!

Did it work?

I loathe advisors that don't guide and assist. Then they're just there to get their name on something. I said what I said lol

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"My work here is done."

Can't see it if you don't check.

Thank you for reminding me. It's been a while

But the answer to black matter might be in there!

Proof read dude...proof read. Also it is alarming how many people at that level make those copy and paste mistakes.

Solar panels in front of your teeth should do it

I was this student at one point (not PhD) and I left lol

It works though lol

That's where the beauty comes from.

Like that's ever gonna happen.

These poster sessions are cool but geez, the questions some people ask.

It's hell when they get accepted and you know that the article is not worth the paper it's emailed on.

Rookie. I do that many just on the way to work.

Unfortunately, true.

For me it's the opposite. I blab and blab and then realise that they don't know what I'm talking about, which is fair, because neither do I

Brezhnev announcing that "every four year plan takes us one step closer to communism".

I actually love it!

OMG! Spot on!

We're all Buddha, and so is Shrek.

My team and another team in Italy all work on a very specific subject and there has been a lot of back and forth between the two, trying to create a new tool that is better than theirs. The number of citations has gone wayyy up

Dammit, it should be the other way around.

What's Obama doing here?

There is a professor in my lab who destroys everyone, including other professors. He's in me evaluation committee! So far though, every time I left the committee meeting convinced that he was going to fail me and instead it was "Very good work!"

Any two PhD students who have the same advisor.

Please, steal my ideas, I'll pay you to steal my ideas, how does a million dollars sound.