Thank you all for your attention and for your texts, you all have been very kind!
Well I'm not gonna quit it now, I still am going to take some time to be sure whether this PhD is for me or not. I think I will wait until the end of the year before I take a final decision.
Anyway, apart from all of the thing I listed before, I am still not that sure that even the topic of the PhD itself may be of interest for me. I'm still at the beginning and what they have shown me so far has bored me enough. Moreover, I have also seen that in my department, basically none of the PhD students menage to award such a title within the end of their scolarship (due to supervisor who has no time to control publication drafts and other burocratical stuffs) and they mainly have to work for free even for a few additional years.
This fact, together with the doubt whether I may have to give back the money that I have been given to so far from my scholarship or not (which I still haven't menaged to get a final answer at my department), frankly scares me a bit and makes me wonder whether I should stay, try and apply for a different PhD in my country or directly looking for a job before I may quit.

Thank you for your attention!

Jason.

Thank you Corinne for your answer, well, to get my studentship I have not applied directly go get one, it was my supervisor who already gifted me with it. So you think I should formally fill in a form that I have to hand in in a secretary at university and then drop a line by e-mail to my supervisor in order to tell him about my decision to leave the studentship?

Many thanks for your attention!

Jason.

Thank you very much for your answers, my studentship comes from erc and it is 19k per year. I know it is a good studentship, but I am getting more and more aware that this place it's not for me. The only idea to come to work in university every day makes me depressed. I would avoid to talk directly to the supervisor, I don't feel comfortable at all with him and it seems pretty unpredictable what he may be going to say! Maybe I should look around for an office where I may ask for more information...
In any case, so, there is not a standard procedure to quit a phd? Should it be enough to write a mail to the supervisor as I make such a decision or should I fill in some forms?
Many thanks for your attention and for your answers!
Jason.

I'm a fresh phd student at ulb (bruxelles) in the field of robotics. Even though I have started recently, I have been hating it (namely the town, the people in the lab, especially my supervisor and so on) ever since and I am seriously considering to quit it within the end of the year. In that case, what should I do to quit?
Moreover, I also have a EU-studentship. Then, if I give up, should I give back all of the money that I have earned so far or not?
Thank you for your kind attention and my best regards,

Jason.

Thank you all for your kind attention! In any case, I have just had my job interview at ETH and they told me they will let me know about their final decision within the end of July. They also asked me to send to them the statistics about how many people get their master degree summa cum laude. I did not know they were supposed to ask such a thing honestly! In the meantime, I keep my fingers crossed and if I should receive an offer, I will decide at that moment!

Thank you again for your support and help!

Hugs!

Hi to everyone!

I have recently finished my Master and I have recently applied for a phd studentship both at Jacobs (Bremen) and at ETH (Zurich). Both are in the fields of robotics.
I have already had an interview at Jacobs. They have been extremely kind and proposed me a fully funded scholarship for a period ranging from 3 to 5 yrs, whereas at ETH I am going to have an interview soon.
In case I should also be accepted by both, which one do you recommend me to opt for? I am slightly more interested in the program at Jacobs, but I don't know how well it ranks in comparison with ETH, which is top ranking at a global level!
Has any of you had any experience of a PhD student (or else) at either of these universities? Which parameters do you recommend me to consider in order to make up my mind?

Thank you all for your attention!!!