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Date Posted: 00:42:44 08/20/09 Thu
Author: EC
Subject: My PhD

Life of PhD is pretty boring, at least comparing with my post-college life. Yet, it is not boring as I have experienced a lot. In my therapy, I described a PhD as if the hour hand of a clock. You cannot really see when it moves but it does move. I just cannot summarize how much my perspective and standpoint has changed due to encountering different concepts and people. It is not about a particular significant event but accumulation of daily interaction bit by bit. Pursuing a PhD is more than studying. It is totally a self-reflective process through which I learn what thing in life gains the priority. I have to constantly ask and adjust myself as it's so easy that I get suck into a focal point and fail to see a bigger picture. I feel naked as I have to face my vulnerability. I truly think it's worthwhile having all these pains. Yes, most of the time, people try to escape from pain. We don't like to suffer. Ironically, suffering pushes us to go beyond the present self or even go beyond ourselves. I am not being ascetic. Yet, I am willing to be in the moment when I have to face all these pains.

PS: one of the funny ways to understand the life of PhD * http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php *

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