Dr Ben Miles | My PhD Experience and What I Learned @DrBenMiles | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 10 hours ago
Someone in the comments asked about my PhD experience and I wanted to share my story and the lessons I took away from it.

0:00 Introduction
0:57 An Experimentalist PhD
1:25 My Expectations
2:09 The Reality
3:38 Getting Kicked Out of The Lab
4:06 My Group
5:01 Out Lack of Funding
5:25 What I Wish I'd Asked
5:59 The Problem with Instrumentation PhDs
6:54 Understanding the Nature of the Project
7:37 Starting From Scratch
8:17 Isolation
9:38 The Day to Day
10:09 Heads Up Vs Heads Down Mentality
10:55 Tackle Small Steps
12:10 My Heads Up Moment
13:12 I Need Publications
14:27 No Half Measures
15:23 The Best Part of The PhD
16:12 The Write Up
16:55 The PhD That Never Ends
17:24 The Viva
18:33 4 Years of Hard Work
19:03 I Had No Plan
20:15 My Final Advice

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