A PhD state of mind (2018)
Well, it seems that everyone describes the PhD as a tragic experience... for me it wasn't.<p>I don't know exactly why that was, probably a mixture of how it is organized/work culture (Italy is clearly not the US), the extremely caring and human supervisor, and a not particularly competitive field. I would argue that also my fellow PhD candidates were not as stressed as I read here (antidepressants on every doorknob? No way.)<p>Now that I'm done and I moved to another university in the northern part of the EU, I'm still not convinced, by looking at candidates here, that the PhD is such a tragic experience,but maybe I just know lucky people.<p>Did anyone here have a <i>positive</i> PhD?