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Should I drop out of my PhD?

Should I drop out of my PhD?

To be clear, we’re not encouraging anyone outright to quit their PhD. If you genuinely like academia and enjoy your research, that’s plenty enough reason to see your degree through to the end. Rather, we’re saying it’s perfectly fine to quit your PhD if you don’t enjoy or take satisfaction in the work.

Can you pause a PhD?

The first six months to twelve months of a PhD program are crucial to making sure that you are set up for long term success. If you start to feel really unsure about 1) the project and/or 2) the supervision you are receiving, there is no harm in pausing for a couple of months.

Is it possible to quit a PhD?

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People claim that “quitters never win”, but actually, for some, quitting a PhD is the best choice they can make. Thanks for such a thoughtful and straight talking post BJ. What do you think? Is your PhD making you miserable, or does the misery have another cause?

What to do when your PhD supervisor doesn’t do their job?

Sometimes that action will be to abandon the approach and move onto something else. These decisions should feel like a partnership between the supervisor and student. If they don’t then the supervisor is not doing their job. The relationships you have in your PhD are very important.

Is it time to give up the PhD?

Or maybe you can’t force yourself and instead you spend the day surfing the internet, chatting with friends, occasionally looking at an academic article, and when evening comes, you feel depressed and guilty. Time to give up the PhD? No, you think.

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Should I get a PhD?

If you don’t want those things but you are lonely and/or you feel you need something equally important in your life, carefully consider whether a PhD is actually that meaningful to you. It might be that you’d be happier if you made some new friends or found a new hobby or changed jobs.