Tips For Successfully Completing your PhD – Part 1

Completing your Ph.D. thesis is no walk in the park. I can still remember walking into the lab one afternoon to find my senior huddled under a table, ‘ Hiding from the stress ’ as he put it. Despite these difficulties, plenty of eager students start their PhD every year, enthusiastic but woefully unprepared for the hardships that they will face. To help prospective (or current) PhD students, we’ve compiled a list of ten things that you should keep in mind while carrying out your research. 1. Choose your topic wisely – Unlike your master’s dissertation or the book report you left until the last minute, Ph.D. projects take a minimum of three years. That’s a lot of time to spend on a topic that you either don’t like or aren’t interested in. 2. Focus – This seems an obvious reminder, but you’d be surprised how easy it is to get distracted when you have an important task at hand with a deadline that’s far away. And trust me, there will always be distrac...