It takes a village to…get a PhD
you are not alone
In the whole PhD process I confess I felt lonely.
Maybe because I know some PhD students that have projects that are part of bigger projects with more people involved and my project is basically solo.
But after some reflection time ( aka: sleepless nights full of red bull working or sleepless nights worried about my PhD project), I notice that even if I think its a bit lonely…it takes a village to get a PhD.
Sometimes it can be tricky to see it but there is a lot of people involved:
- supervisors
- friends
- family
- coworkers
- journal reviewers ( that will give feedback on your papers)
- conference peers that we meet
- industry partners
It is a network of people that will have a degree of influence on the PhD, on my professional and personal life as well.
It takes a village to raise a kid, to get a PhD, to develop ourselves…it makes me feel so grateful and fortunate to have this network of people around me in this academic path…it would take the whole life to thank them enough :)
