A lot of ideas and suggestions compiled up as a list of tips that would comprehensively help to keep spirits high during a PhD journey that is tough.
- Polish your skills: use this as an opportunity to polish all those skills that this programme is offering you to focus upon
- Get an opportunity to earn a stipend: look at it as another constructive means to ear yourself a minimum wage alongside getting to add a worthy degree to your kitty
- Live the life of a college student: whatever your age be while you are pursuing your PhD, take it as a chance of an extended college life. You can do all that college kids do all the while that you stay on the campus
- Become a knowledge sucker: perhaps it is the only phase in life when one lives around people evolved with knowledge. Hone as much as you can and become a sucker for knowledge at this time
- Get research papers published: it is must for a PhD scholar, and because it is compulsory so you would do it. Look at it as an opportunity to participate in conferences in the most exotic locales around the world and your name there in the most reputed of journals
- Remember that you are paid to read: many a scholars forget that they get paid to read and write. It is an easier source to earn money, than many other around the world. Keep reminding yourself the same
- Make Friends and expand your circle: you will need various doses of inspiration and motivation during the tenure. Make inspiring friends who would keep your spirits high
- Make your resume meaty: you would find many a options for joining committees and take up leadership initiatives at various places. Without letting it come in the way of your research, do take up the opportunities and give yourself the exposure to shine and fly higher
- Observe your supervisor closely: your supervisor would be an achiever in his own field. Staying in close association with him would help you to understand what he has done differently. Explore a similar growth path for self
- Do not waste precious time: do utilise the time judiciously
