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Author: oisdk

drafts/finishing-phd.markdown

@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ how the whole thing has gone.
 Also, I'm currently looking for work for after my PhD, so I thought I should
 take this opportunity to advertise myself a little.
 
-## My Experience of a Computer Science PhD in London
-
 I'm not going to bury the lede: my experience has been overwhelmingly positive.
 My supervisor (Nicolas Wu) has been kind, patient, and extraordinarily helpful
 in guiding me through academia.
@@ -23,25 +21,10 @@ understanding.
 It really is a privilege that now, as a PhD student, I get to work on that same
 material as part of my day job.
 
-Before starting my PhD, I remember thinking that I was signing myself up for
-a five-year-long slog.
-Some of the accounts I had read about PhD life painted a pretty bleak picture:
-endless difficult work interspersed with flurries of stress.
 While my PhD has certainly been stressful at times (a large proportion of my
 career prospects hang on how many papers I get accepted to certain conferences;
 as a result, the review process for those conferences is acutely unpleasant),
 overall I have been surprised with how relaxed and fun the whole thing has been,
 and how much freedom I have had to spend my time as I see fit, and to research
 whatever I think is worth researching.
 
-Living in London has also been pretty great.
-It's a very walkable city, and public transport is pretty good (but expensive)
-for longer distances (cycling infrastructure is also improving in the city,
-albeit slowly), which means that it's a great place to live without a car.
-It *is* expensive, however, which makes it a less fun place to live as a PhD
-student.
-The food is ok, not great: on the one hand, even the *worst* Indian food I've
-had has been very tasty, and pretty much all the pizza I've had has been
-consistently good; on the other hand, standard sandwiches etc. from cafes have
-been almost universally bad.
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