I decided to do a PhD. My result is due in 3 days. I ahve already viva’d and been given major corrections, so this is the final chance for me. The entire process is not like people imagine – you don’t sit in a sunny drawing room with a brandy snifter philosophising about ‘stuff’ and then just get given a doctorate – you work so hard that sometimes it goes on all night. You hate yourself for being too stupid, for not grasping the points, for screwing up again and again. I look in the mirror and I tell myself I am stupid, because I […]