Live Free Or Die

• I want to win the Nobel Prize.
• I want to win the Turing Award.

First year of PhD:d

• I want to finish PhD in two years.
• I want to publish papers only in top tier conferences.
• I want to make ground-breaking research.
• I want to win the best PhD Thesis award.

Second year of PhD:

• I want to finish PhD in 5 years.
• I want a problem.
• Shall I change my advisor?

Third year of PhD:

• I want a paper; I don’t care which conference.
• Shall I change my topic?
• I want to be known as Dr  Duffer.

Fourth year of PhD:

• I want to finish PhD!
• My industry-friends have two children by now. When will I get married?

Fifth year of PhD:

• Why did I come here?
• Why did I choose this advisor?
• Why did I choose this topic?

Sixth year of PhD:

• Someone give me a degree!
• I want to leave this place — for ever.
• Let me leave.

Seventh year of PhD:

• People call me uncle  .
• she waited and finally married someone else.
• I don’t want any degree. I just want to live peacefully.