{"id":2988,"date":"2019-06-24T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/third-year-of-phd-life-a-slow-burning-trial-by-fire\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T06:33:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T06:33:01","slug":"third-year-of-phd-life-a-slow-burning-trial-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/third-year-of-phd-life-a-slow-burning-trial-by-fire","title":{"rendered":"Third year of PhD life: A slow-burning trial by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third year of your PhD is weird. You\u2019ve passed your qualifying exams, probably have a focus for your thesis, and the second half of grad school lies ahead, glittering with possibility.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And yet.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve passed your qualifying exams, taking away the pressure of having an immediate end goal. You sort of know what your thesis will be about, but you also know that it\u2019s likely to change completely in the next two to three years. You have a few years left, but\u00a0you only have a few years left to finish everything you want to do.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What you\u2019re left dealing with is a complete rollercoaster of an academic year. You\u2019re working on papers, still planning projects and experiments, maybe taking a class, maybe working with undergraduates in your lab, and generally trying to plan the next three years. One day your data looks amazing and your writing is going smoothly; the next day, you find an error in some calculations and realize you have to redo multiple days of work, and writer\u2019s block suddenly strikes. One day you and your labmates are stoked on academia, the next you\u2019re all planning your joint business and daydreaming about alternate lives. In short \u2013 you start to question everything. Do you even want to be here?<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Qualifying exams are the typical \u201ctrial by fire\u201d experience in grad school, but I\u2019m here to say that third year comes hot on its heels in terms of mental difficulty. And it\u2019s a year, not just one stressful afternoon. It\u2019s emotionally exhausting and counterproductive to find yourself questioning your ability to succeed and your life choices on a daily basis. So how do you get through it? How do you come out stronger on the other end, more certain of your choices \u2013 or just as unsure as you were a year ago? It\u2019s a slump, one my advisor warned me about during my first year but I swore I\u2019d avoid. Ha.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The thing that has been most helpful for me is hands-down a strong support network of a mix of people \u2013 (hopefully) your advisor, other professors, grad students who can either commiserate or tell you that fourth year is better, friends outside your own department who know what you\u2019re going through (and who can remind you that you\u2019re doing just fine), and a supportive partner who can help put everything into perspective. Having a wide range of folks who you can lean on \u2013 and who in turn, can lean on you \u2013 is essential for well-being in grad school in general, but especially during a period of questioning and self-doubt like third year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What was also helpful, perhaps surprisingly, was really dwelling on that uncertainty. Questioning your motivations and goals is uncomfortable, but it\u2019s a necessary check for whether your life is heading in the direction that you want it to be, one that will make you healthy and satisfied. Is grad school sometimes unbelievably busy and stressful? Absolutely. But for you, is that stress worth it? Is it balanced out by the things that you enjoy and find rewarding in grad school? Would it continue to be rewarding as you progress through academia?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

My go-to thought experiment on this front is my imaginary, alternative career based on my other undergraduate degree. Had I chosen to stay in the field of communications, I probably would have been applying to lots of corporate PR jobs. Had I gotten one, I would probably spend my working life in a typical 9-to-5 job (perk!) with much less flexibility (boo), writing emails to spam an emailing list (double boo), and with little control over what I was working on (triple boo). In contrast, doing my own research in a university setting lets me decide what I want to work on in a flexible setting, surrounded by capable, intellectually engaging people. That, for me, makes the stress worth it. But without the pressure of the third-year slump leading me to think critically about my path, I\u2019m not sure I would have arrived at this decision. And even with this thought process, some uncertainty remains, and there\u2019s a good chance that I\u2019ll feel differently tomorrow, or next Monday, or a year from now.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But for now, I\u2019ll stick with my decision to stick it out in grad school. It\u2019s also important to remember that there are paths after grad school outside of academia which all too often get shunted aside as an \u201calternative career path\u201d to academia. It\u2019s not alternative, it\u2019s just a career choice. Who knows? Maybe my daydream of becoming an internationally-renowned science writer will come to fruition and I can quit my day job.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"DefaultSometimes taking lab selfies for instagram feels silly but is actually a fun little way to remind yourself what you love about your job! I just get to hang out and do chemistry!\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rebecca Dzombak (@<\/b>bdzombak<\/a>) is a PhD candidate in Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan. This story was published on March 29, 2019, on Rebecca\u2019s blog<\/a> (available here<\/a>), and has been republished here with her permission.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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