PhD 2023 #002: What is PhD 2023?

PhD 2023 is a series of blog posts that I'm planning to write regarding my experiences as a PhD Math student at MSU-IIT.

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As you may or may not know, I was a board exam topnotcher in the September 2016 LET. And I regret that I haven't documented the whole journey. That would have been epic.

So now that I'm starting this new journey, it would be a waste not to document it all - the highs and lows, the sighs and the woahs.

I even suspect that I enrolled in this program simply because I want to document it. I may be joking but there's some truth to this.

Anyway, this PhD series is going to be non-linear.

So is life.

So is research.

It's going to mirror the process of doing research.

If all goes well, I'll graduate by 2023. Hence the name.

But that's a long way to go. There's no rush. I wanna enjoy the process.

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