The late stages of a PhD SUCK | Life as a PhD student #22

A video about why hope is important. Because when you're nine years into higher education, you need a ray of that.

I really hope this one doesn't come across as really pretentious or sanctimonious. My point is was that in situations like being at the very end of your PhD with loads left to do and not much support it would be easy to despair and give up. But if you keep faith in yourself, and hope that it can be accomplished, then you'll drag yourself out of the hole. There's not guarantee that it will happen. But the only way to ensure that you won't finish is to lose hope. So get busy living.

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I am Simon, a fourth year PhD candidate at the University of Exeter. I upload videos on bits of science which are relevant to what I do, and sometimes just because they're really cool.

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