Timeline for Should I quit my PhD after 4 months?
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| Jan 21, 2021 at 15:44 | comment | added | Jon Custer | @ZizyArcher - indeed, OP should get a full-spectrum light and spend lots of time near it. | |
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| Jan 20, 2021 at 23:40 | answer | added | Artelius | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 23:10 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen | Reiterating what others said. Culture shock is a real thing. Pandemic makes it much worse. Make some local friends (other grad students in similar situation). That helps immensely in coping with the culture shock. Also, what Zizy Archer said. Some people react to the dark season very strongly. Seen it happen to grad students from Southern Europe coming to Finland. I | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 14:21 | answer | added | Daniel S. Fowler | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 7:07 | comment | added | user9482 | "I started thinking of getting a job where you do your hours and then you go back home without any thoughts, problems or pressure." This would lock you in low-level jobs. | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 22:31 | comment | added | End Antisemitic Hate | Life is short. Quit. | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 20:16 | answer | added | Bart Slodzinski | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 16:19 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 13:14 | history | edited | Luke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 19, 2021 at 11:43 | comment | added | Zizy Archer | 1.) If you are coming from a south(er) country, you might be feeling effects of winter - lack of sun. You wouldn't be the first to leave because of that. 2.) Moving to new place is hard. New everything, even if your girl came with you - no friends, relatives etc. A lot of people go back because they can't handle that part. 3.) Starting PhD is hard and the early impression can be misleading. 1+2+3.) Please don't take this as an answer or suggestion what to do, just possible considerations. Decisions to stay or leave are usually obvious only in retrospect :) | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 9:00 | answer | added | Confused Beatle | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 8:56 | answer | added | Collega | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 23:58 | answer | added | shawn | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 22:17 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @user347489 There is nothing romantic about this "turn around" exception. The default of my statement assumes that it becomes harder. But I do not want to make an absolute statement. I do not know OP and their situation and I do not want to be guilty of having induced OP to leave. | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 22:01 | comment | added | user347489 | [2/2] It is known that moving and starting a PhD abroad is very taxing during the first few months. Depression is a common symptom. To this you have to add the current state of matters. Be kind to yourself and keep in mind some of these feelings are normal. An idea could be to set a trial period for you to evaluate your options and make sure you don't rush any decision. | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 21:56 | comment | added | user347489 | @CaptainEmacs "Unless you believe you can turn it around [...]" This line is very dangerous. It's a terrible common practice to romanticize the struggles of academia, specially for someone just starting their PhD. OP: Trust your gut. If you don't like your project now chances are you won't like it further down the line. This doesn't mean you have to change lab or advisors necessarily, but you need to bring this to the table with them so that all of you can figure out the best course of action. [1/2] | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 21:05 | comment | added | yarchik | Why don't you look for a job in parallel? It is much easier to make a decision when you have something in your hands. Now you are just theorizing without having anything to compare. | |
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 15:07 | comment | added | Dawn | Here I would like to point out that correlation is not causation. You might assume that your mental situation is caused by your work. However, it is just as likely that it is related to the pandemic, your move, or a quirk of your age (sometimes various hormones and other biological antecedents shift with age). Really get this examined/diagnosed before career decisions. | |
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 13:20 | answer | added | gnometorule | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 12:55 | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 52 | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 12:32 | comment | added | user111388 | "Should be an ideal condition"..if it's not ideal for you, then it is not. You should not feel bad about that you feel different than some other people (and I knoe many academics who felt the same as you in those situations). | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 12:15 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | Your supervisors are nice? Put things openly on the table, the earlier the better. Unless you believe you can turn it around, things become only harder by dragging it on. You can be diplomatic and say that the project turned out not to be for you. | |
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