(Maybe you actually want to know how to choose a programme?)
This seems about right, from Peter Hancock (pictured).
“Writing a thesis is like being confined in a pit of your own sewage, well over your head. It is little comfort that it is your own sewage. Indeed by comparison, other people’s sewage is like the crystal waters off an island in the Bahamas.”
I liked Dave Clarke’s tips and Matt Might’s diagrammatic explanation of what a PhD is all about. Alan Bundy’s guide to how to do research is great too. Simon Peyton Jones has a great talk on how to give research talks.
I also found these thoughts helpful.
“Write without pay until somebody offers pay; if nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.”
—Mark Twain
“You know you’ve grown up when you think that your Ph.D. thesis isn’t that bad after all.”
—Max Cresswell (found over there)
Finally
A poem: Seven Factorial Theatrical Despair 😉