Quote From labpixie:

*blinks in shock* I'm actually allowed to say it????

I HATE my PhD. ---- Me Too.



There.

18 months in and looking forward to getting out. --- To where? The job market is awful.



I hate the experiments that take forever, the hours I spend mindlessly browsing the internet because I have to press a stupid button every couple of minutes and my supervisor refuses to let us install any useful programs on the computer.

---- You have to give it to the internet; it never gets boring.



I hate that at the end of that all I get is spectra. No graphs. No equations. Just another sheet of A4 paper with yet another spectrum on it.

---I love Spectra, you need to love spectra.

I hate that half the reason I wanted to do a PhD is because I wanted to have a go at academia, but if that means I have to stick with this topic then when I graduate I'm getting a normal job.

--- BEWARE A "normal" job is much worse than a PhD.

I hate that there is no space in the building for me to have a seat in an office so I have to wander back and forth between campus and home.

---- You should raise this, its really unfair, infact it the cost maybe even accounted for in your tuition fee.

I hate that most of the other PhD students are very cliquey and have their groups so don't ever talk to me.


---- Just walk up to them and say "Hi", force the words out of your mouth. Ask about something, anything, their desks, computer screen, fancy plots, you have a lot in common after all you're all doing PhD's. They probably aren't being cliquey on purpose, they just don't know who you are and probably don't want to disturb you.

I hate that my housemate doing a PhD in another department seems to be having the best time ever.
---- He's on something.

Most of all I hate that I went to a departmental talk on the topic that several people hinted that I should look at *years* ago and it was the most fascinatingly beautiful thing I have seen in ages and I could feel all of the old love for my subject coming back, but I'm so far away from that topic I can't see how it'll ever be possible to get back there.

---Yes, the professor's always glam it up don't they.