PhD Comics: Progress

Comic by: Jorge Cham
Source: phdcomics.com

This is what I need to do now. I'm in my second year now and I need to double up my efforts, work twice as hard and sleep less. I need to be industrious, have high motivation and presevere eventough there will be many obstacles in my way. At the same time pray to Allah S.W.T for His guidance and blessings. I may be dissapointed but I will never give up. Hopefully...

The Best Time..

What do you think ?. Best woo sambung PhD ni. The comic is somewhat true, especially when you study abroad. But that's not our main reason. The main reason is to try your best to get a PhD. But in that process, you get the chance to learn a lot of things for example conducting research with established Professors in their field, work with coallegues of different nationality, culture and religion. Besides that, you can interact with the locals where you are living. Studying in Europe also give us the chance to see the culture and life of the European which one of the important experience that we can bring home. This is a chance of a lifetime that we can get to visit these places. So for those who criticised us of always going for a vacation is not appropriate and need to think twice before criticising. Won't you be doing the same thing ? You need to have a good time management to decide when to have your holiday and when to work. Besides, we even discuss this with our supervisors. We are not robots that can work 24 hours every day and every month. Another thing, you don't usually put pictures of you studying and researching in blogs and facebooks right. We only put the exciting things i.e the places you visited, gatherings etc. We know what we are doing and we are trying our best. So please help us by giving supports and not critics. However, an advice would be nice..;)

What To Call Your Supervisor ?

Well, the same thing happens to me here. In Malaysia, we always call our Professors as Prof, or Datuk (if he has one) but here in Denmark everyone are calling them names, their first names! It was a culture shock for me actually and I still can't help myself of calling them Prof or Sir. But for me I just call them 'Sir'. But most of the supervisors tend to be like friends to us. In that case, I have no problem of calling them names. All in all, you need to understand first the culture or environment of the country or institution you are in. But in Malaysia, if you are calling your supervisors just names you can be considered as rude huhu. But here, its not a big deal.

Motivation Level Graph for PhD Student...

Source: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=124

Azizul: Haha..kalau 'weekly meeting with supervisor' memang graf tinggi melambung, macam tau-tau je..'catch up on web surfing', 'happy hour'..memang realiti betul la graf ni..tapi 'consider quitting PhD' ni tidak mungkin bagi diriku..