PhD Simulator
This is great and exactly captures the PhD experience. Both in the simulator and in real life, I mostly survived until the end by slacking off frequently, and needed around 5 years.<p>Some highlights:<p>&gt; INBOX: Based on the reviewers&#x27; comments, we regret to inform you that your manuscript has been REJECTED for publication. One of the reviewers pointed out that there is no comparison with a state-of-art method.<p>&gt; You came up with a bunch of ideas. However, upon further searching, you found that they have already been done before.<p>&gt; You found the missing piece during a shower. You develop one of your preliminary results into a major result.<p>&gt; You found one of your ideas appears in a recently published paper. You can no longer work on it.<p>&gt; Three years passed. You have witnessed many graduations. You began to worry about whether your can graduate on time.<p>&gt; The simulation took a much longer time than you expected. The results are not available yet.<p>What was missing:<p>1.) Growing feeling of getting too old<p>2.) Growing family obligations (marriage, kids, trying to write a thesis at 3am with a crying baby next room)<p>3.) Questions asked by friends and relatives regarding progress<p>4.) Teaching obligations