How to succeed in your PhD

Tips from a PhD graduate: how to do well

• Take Initiatives
• Find your way around obstacles
• Get along with your research group
• Know how the ’system’ works
• Get things done

These are common to success in industry and the professions.

Academia is a business and ‘PhD student is a job title.

Don’t expect micro-management

Be tenacious: develop a thick skin.

Do something every day to get you nearer to finishing your dissertation.

Be flexible: you are at the bottom of the hierarchy.

I have more of these bons mots scribbled on sheets. i will blog them when I find them – and credit the author!

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