My Research Journey | The side of doing a PhD you don’t see 

May Allah bless you and increase you in all that is good.

I am so glad you were able to share your story in a powerful way, Aamir!! I'm so proud of you for who you are and what you have accomplished!!!

Thanks so much for talking about the 'dark' side of a PhD. Students need to know all these facts to make decisions about their future. You are super inspiring!!

I'm in my 2nd semester of my PhD in Cancer Biomedical Sciences, and I'm also first student of my Supervisor, it's really hard day by day..

Thank you for this gift of motivation! I am pursuing a PhD well over 40 and determined ;) Your story is what I needed right now!!!

You are an amazing gentleman with an incredible story of strength, courage, resilience, persistence, and dedication! 😊🎉 Thank you for sharing this, Aamir!

Thank you very much Aamir for the inspiring and insightful presentation!

wow that is amazing dudee!

Thanks for sharing your story! 🙌🏼

Well done bro! You have a brilliant mentality!

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant! I just started my PhD this info is very useful

Beautiful presentation. Many congratulations on completing your PhD despite the many challenges. This really was an inspirational talk. All the best for your future! 🙌🏼

This is great.

Thanks a lot Aamir! My takeaways: "Not 'if' but 'when'... Be grateful for what you have but don't be satisfied with what you can get!"

Good sharing. Congratulations. You are a conquerer.

Incredible work

Very inspiring talk :)) and it’s me, a fellow writer at medium

Inspiring

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your experience is very similar to mine, I was isolated in a lab 7 miles away from campus in a complex with no other PhD students but a few foriegn postdocs intent on thier work. I was told not to talk to people outside my lab and there was no one in my lab but a series of non english speaking foriegn postdocs some of whom cried everyday. Shortly after I arrived the college cut all student stipends. Some advisors chose to fund their PhD student from their grant money and get them tuition waivers but mine did not. I worked as a field hand in the agricultural college farm next my lab or sometimes as a janitor at other colleges to fund my PhD. My advisor would not buy supplies for my experiments so I could only use what supplies and instruments were there that the postdoc didnt need or what I bought myself. My dad died of cancer in the second year of my studies. Did it make me stronger and a better problem solver having to do it all myself and teach myself in isolation? yes Would I do it again? no, there are better ways to acompilish this and work in the subject I am passionate about.

My tip on doing a PhD. Do it on Hegelian philosophy applied in an analysis of James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake'. That's what I'm doing. No one knows what you are on about. Even your supervisors