Research

Maybe I am still used to letting another person remind me, hey! you have to finish the $#$%^ by the end of #@!@##$. But that's not the case when you are a phD student. Some may like this kind of being pushed feeling, but I don't. In my opinion, there's two kind of research, one is giving by others like your advisor, the other is your own research, which you are pretty much on your own. Sometimes, your advisor is just too busy to give you more instructions. For me, I am kind of feeling frustrated when I find out the fact that I am alone in this research. Yes, my advisor can give me advice, but I realize that he is any possibly closed to the answer than me. He may point out a problem or field that he think it's worthwhile to do, but he will pretty much let you explore this area by yourself. So don't expect too much from your advisor, he also has his own research to do, just like you except maybe ten times busier than you. But what if I am too frustrated by the research I've done so far and don't even have a clue where it will lead me to? Well, hang on there, you will figure it out eventually, always remember, nobody force you to do anything, you are on your own, you struggling in these years of PhD, but after all these years of struggling, you may form your own style of handling things and your own foundations for your future research.