Your life in PhD (Part 1)

If you spent 5 years writhing the book this thick, you're out of luck becoming a earning writer.

Today I want to ink my PhD experience as I’ve already spent 5 years of my life doing lab works and what not, mundane jobs of cloning and sequencing plasmids. Since I still have my fond memory of PhD student life and vivid lab experience, I will share with you in details. 

I will break it down into 2 parts that I managed to achieve during my PhD years. 

(1) Mindset and thinking.

(2) Doing experiments. 

There is no doubt that there are more talented, more productive PhD graduates out there who can easily figure out how to succeed in research life. I'm just laying out my take on how to manage to survive and if luck and your efforts are in your favor, eventually succeed in your PhD years. This is neither to serve as a PhD bible nor an acid test to see if one could stay in academia. It's solely based on my opinions and I hope some of my opinions will be helpful when it comes to dealing with lab environment and politics.