My PhD Studty Life

My PhD Studty Life



The PhD Supervisor





To begin a thesis, it is necessary to have a boss. A boss is a very very strong man who gives me problems and who helps me solve them.

Research






At the beginning, it is very complicated ! You don't understand anything.









You spend hours and hours searching without finding anything. In these moments, my dad and my mom are awkwardly anxious and when my mom asks whether it was a good idea to let me do a thesis, my dad opens the mouth without speaking, he agitates his arms, then goes and reads his newspaper inthe sitting room.

Discove





Sometimes, it is great, because I discover tricks for which my boss had asked. Certainly, that can happen at any hour, and my parents are not always delighted.















They wonder why I don't go completely insane, but my mom knows that my dad doesn't like it when she says so.















Me, I find it rather normal, to be happy. Moreover, when my boss proves a new theorem, he is super proud and his friends are super happy with him. But myparents, they don't know this.













Sometimes too, it's not so grea, because I'm mistaken. And when I'm mistaken, my boss doesn't laugh, definitely not. "Look me in the eyes, Yan ", he says, not happy at all. "You call this work, perhaps ?" he asks. Then, it looks like a question but I should not answer, because if I do, he gets totally red.

Seminars





rom time to time, a very-very significant and bloody strong Mister (but no as strong as my boss, nevertheless) comes to speak to us about super-complicated things. It's called a seminar, and during  a seminar, one doesn't laugh either. When the Mister finishes speaking, my boss asks lots of very complicated questions to him, and he can't always answer. And that's not right, because him, he doesn't get ticking-off!

The Defence













If I finish, there will be a big ceremony with lots of people very-very strong (there even will be some other bosses, that shows you !) and there will be a very old, very-very important Mister, who will tell me, that is very well, my Little one, the paths of Research are gloriously open to me and that I am my parents' pride and the honor of the country, and all the chatter. And after this sweet talk, there will be a huge snacktime with all my pals.Great!















And when he reads all of this in the newspaper, my dad will be very proud and my mom will be so happy she will give me pudding twice, my favorite dessert. It is really super, a thesis, at the end!

Glory














What's more, the girls are highly impressed when they learn you're a PhD in computer Science and you have proved lots of complicated theorems, and all, and all. Even my mom will be always smiling to me, whereas she thought I was a very turbulentlittle boy.