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 <h1>The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.</h1>

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<p>
Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is.
</p>

<p>
It's hard to describe it in words.
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<p>
So, I use pictures.
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<p>
Read below for the illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
</p>

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<p>
<b>Update</b>: <a href="http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/#print">Print version</a>,
  
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<b>Update:</b> I wrote a follow-up to this 5 years later -- <a href="http://matt.might.net/articles/tenure/">HOWTO: Get tenure</a>.

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<p>

Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge:
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<p>
By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little:
</p>

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 <img src="images/PhDKnowledge.002.jpg" width="440">
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<p>
By the time you finish high school, you know a bit more:
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 <img src="images/PhDKnowledge.003.jpg" width="440">
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<p>
With a bachelor's degree, you gain a specialty:
</p>

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 <img src="images/PhDKnowledge.004.jpg" width="440">
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<p>
A master's degree deepens that specialty:
</p>


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 <img src="images/PhDKnowledge.005.jpg" width="440">
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<p> Reading research papers takes you to the edge of human knowledge: </p>


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 <img src="images/PhDKnowledge.006.jpg" width="440">
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<p>
Once you're at the boundary, you focus:
</p>

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 <img src="images/PhDKnowledge.007.jpg" width="440">
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You push at the boundary for a few years:
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 <img src="images/PhDKnowledge.008.jpg" width="440">
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<p>
Until one day, the boundary gives way:
</p>



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 <img src="images/PhDKnowledge.009.jpg" width="440">
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<p>
And, that dent you've made is called a Ph.D.:
</p>

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 <img src="images/PhDKnowledge.010.jpg" width="440">
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<p>
Of course, the world looks different to you now:
</p>

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 <img src="images/PhDKnowledge.011.jpg" width="440">
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<p>
So, don't forget the bigger picture:
</p>

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 <img src="./images/PhDKnowledge.012.jpg" width="440">
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<br>
<p>
Keep pushing.
</p>
<br>


<hr>

<p> There's a bit more below, but I also wrote a follow-up 5 years after the
illustrated guide which may be of interest -- <a href="http://matt.might.net/articles/tenure/">HOWTO: Get tenure</a>.  </p>

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<h2>Related posts</h2>

<ul>
 
  <li><a href="http://matt.might.net/articles/tenure/">HOWTO: Get tenure</a>.</li>

  <li><a href="../books-papers-materials-for-graduate-students/">Recommended reading for grad students</a>.</li>

   <li>
  <a href="http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/">What every CS major should know</a>.
  </li>



  <li><a href="../how-to-apply-and-get-in-to-graduate-school-in-science-mathematics-engineering-or-computer-science/">How to get into grad school</a>.</li>

  <li><a href="../advice-for-phd-thesis-proposals/">Advice for thesis proposals</a>.</li>

  <li><a href="../productivity-tips-hints-hacks-tricks-for-grad-students-academics/">Productivity tips for academics</a>.</li>

  <li><a href="../advice-for-academic-job-hunt/">Academic job hunt advice</a>.</li>

  <li><a href="../successful-phd-students/">Successful Ph.D. students: Perseverance, tenacity and cogency</a>.</li>  

  <li><a href="../crapl/">The CRAPL: An open source license for academics</a>.</li>  

  <li><a href="../problem-shapes/">The shape of your problem</a>.</li>
  
  
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<p>
If you like these posts, then I recommend the book

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<h2>Get it in print; fund students; save lives</h2>



<p>By request, a print version of <em>The Illustrated Guide to a
 Ph.D.</em> is on sale.</p>

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<p> <strike>Any and all proceeds will fund graduate students
whose work may impact the discovery, diagnosis or treatment of 
genetic disorders.</strike> </p>

<p>
Any and all proceeds will fund graduate students (and postdocs)
doing work in biology that may 
impact treatment of diseases of cellular metabolism.
</p>

<p>
<b>Update</b>: If you're interested in <a href="http://www.glycobiology.org/news_display.php?id=1546">being that postdoc</a>, get in touch with me!
</p>

<p> It is available at 
<a href="http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/105539">$6.50</a>
thanks to
Hewlett-Packard's high-quality on-demand publishing service, MagCloud.
</p>

<p> It's sixteen pages, saddle-stitch bound and in full color.</p>

<p>
It's a good gift for new students, the recently defended and relatives thereof.
</p>


<p> <b>Why biology?</b>  </p>

<p>If you zoom in on the boundary of human knowledge in the direction of genetics, there's
something just outside humanity's reach:</p>

<div class="graphic">
 <img src="images/BertrandsLife.png" width="440">
</div>


<p> My wife and I chose to start funding these graduate students after we learned
that <a href="http://overcomingmovementdisorder.blogspot.com//">our
son</a> has a rare, fatal genetic disorder.  </p>



<p>
It may be too late for my son, but it's not too late for other children.
</p>

<p>
Even one child suffering is one child too many.
</p>

<p>
The only way to end this kind of suffering is science.
</p>

<p>
And, the best way to do science is through graduate students.
</p>


<p>
<em><b>Update</b>: When I first wrote this post, my son's specific disorder was unknown.
Thanks to a scientific advance made in genetic diagnostics--specifically exome sequencing--we were able to isolate the mutations in my son's genome and determine that he is the very first documented case of a new disease: N-glycanase deficiency.

<br><br>

One small dent in the circle of knowledge; one giant leap for my son.

<br><br>

You can read the full story in a new post:
<a href="http://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/">Hunting down my son's killer</a>.</em>
</p>


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<p>
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  <li><a href="./IllustratedGuidePhD-Matt-Might.pdf">A slideshow version in PDF</a>. </li>
 
  <li><a href="http://www.thesez-vous.com/blogue/le-doctorat-illustre-un-guide-propose-par-matt-might">French translation</a>
    (by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/smathieuc?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile_pic">Sara Mathieu-C.</a>)</li>

  <li><a href="http://bit.ly/aARgj7">Urdu translation</a> (by <a href="http://adnanmasood.com/">Adnan Masood</a>)</li>

  <li><a href="http://www.tyzoh.jp/community/kkato/2010/08/16_123030.html">Japanese translation</a> (by <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/kimikazu/">Kimikazu Kato</a>)</li>

  <li><a href="http://gabrielegan.com/teaching/What%27s%20a%20PhD/index.htm">UK English "translation"</a> (as interpreted by <a href="http://gabrielegan.com/">Gabriel Egan</a>)

  </li><li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/kleberjacinto/guia-ilustrado-para-o-doutorado">Brazilian Portuguese translation</a> (by <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/kleberjacinto/guia-ilustrado-para-o-doutorado">Kleber Jacinto</a>)</li>


  <li><a href="http://yepce.com/2010/08/17/doktora-derecesi-illustrasyon/">Turkish translation</a> (by Y.Ercan Payidar)

  </li><li><a href="http://ictlogy.net/sociedadred/20100818-guia-ilustrada-para-un-doctorado/">Spanish translation</a> (by <a href="http://ictlogy.net/">Ismael Peña-López</a>)</li>

  <li><a href="http://mrgorefest.blogspot.com/2010/08/cose-un-phd.html">Italian translation</a> (by <a href="http://mrgorefest.blogspot.com/">Alessandro Ferrari</a>)</li>

  <li><a href="http://www.robinmalau.com/phd-guide/">Indonesian translation</a> (by <a href="http://www.robinmalau.com/">Robin Malau</a>)</li>

  <li><a href="http://bit.ly/aLZvER">Greek translation</a> (by <a href="http://anestis.magntize.com/">Anestis Chatzidiakos</a>)</li>
 
  <li><a href="http://parklize.blogspot.ie/2014/07/blog-post_8.html">Korean translation</a></li>

  <li><a href="http://www.dion.ntnu.no/nb_NO/ofte-stilte-sporsmal/hva-er-ph-d/">Norwegian translation</a> (by <a href="http://www.dion.ntnu.no/">DION</a>) </li>

  <li><a href="http://shemra.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post.html">Russian translation</a> (by <a href="http://shemra.blogspot.com/">Shemra Rizzo</a>) </li> 

  <li><a href="http://adatbanyaszat.blog.hu/2010/08/30/kepes_illusztracio_a_phd_rol">Hungarian translation</a> (by <a href="http://prekopcsak.hu/">Zoltan Prekopcsak</a>)</li>

  <li><a href="http://www.openmobilefree.net/?p=670">Chinese translation</a> (by Yifeng Yuan)</li>

  <li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.zhihu.com/question/32186853/answer/56083994">Simplified Chinese translation</a>
    by (Sijia Zhao)</li>

  <li><a href="http://www.cbcity.de/die-versinnbildlichte-darstellung-zum-dr-ing">German translation</a> (by <a href="http://www.cbcity.de/">Paul Balzer</a>)</li>

  <li><a href="http://www.persianwise.org/2011/03/illustrated-guide-to-phd.html">Persian translation</a> (by Kian Abbasnejadi)</li>

  <li><a href="http://kalous.blog.respekt.ihned.cz/c1-46229600-co-je-to-ph-d">Czech translation</a> 
      (by <a href="http://kalous.blog.respekt.ihned.cz">Lukas Kalous</a>)</li>

  <li><a href="http://morgoth.blog.matfyz.sk/p16294-ilustrovany-navod-k-phd">Slovak translation</a>
       (by <a href="http://morgoth.blog.matfyz.sk/">Stano Bustor</a>)</li>

  <li><a href="http://www.inverudio.com/phd/">Serbian Translation</a>
       (by Lazar Kovacevic)</li>

 <li><a href="http://www.ehinger.nu/undervisning/index.php/starta-haer/nyheter/4899-vad-innebaer-det-att-doktorera.html">Swedish Translation</a></li>


  <li><a href="http://dailyexpositions.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/a-filipino-translation-of-the-illustrated-guide-to-a-ph-d/">Filipino translation</a>
     (by <a href="http://dailyexpositions.wordpress.com/">Andrew Pua</a>)
  </li>

  <li><a href="http://marco.fotino.it/2010/11/che-cose-il-dottorato-di-ricerca.html">Italian translation</a>
  (by <a href="http://marco.fotino.it/">Marco Fotino</a>)</li>

  <li>
  <a href="http://sws-areeb-research.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/blog-post.html">Arabic translation</a>
  (by <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/aaa08r">Areeb Alowisheq</a>)
  </li>

  <li>
  <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/tiensilathenao/">Vietnamese translation</a>.
  </li>

  <li>
  <a href="http://jasinski.ukw.edu.pl/bg/spip.php?article21">Polish translation</a>.
   </li>

  <li>
  <a href="http://inzichtvooruitzicht.blogspot.nl/2012/11/een-doctoraat-in-beeld-gebracht.html">Dutch translation</a>.
  </li>

  <li>
  <a href="http://openstudy.org.ua/blog/28825/">Ukranian translation</a>.
  </li>

  <li>
  <a href="https://nodir.me/phd-dhb/phd-nima.html">Uzbek translation</a>.
  </li>

  <li>
  <a href="http://regevelya.net/phd-guide/">Hebrew translation</a>
  (by <a href="http://regevelya.com/">Regev Elya</a>).
  </li>

  <li>
  <a href="http://new.ssrlab.by/kandydackaja-dysiertacyja">Belarussian translation</a>.
  </li>

 
  <li>
  <a href="./translations/catalan/illustrated-guide-catalan.pdf">Catalan translation</a> by Sebas Mas.
  </li>

  <li>
  <a href="http://butler.cc.tut.fi/~joutsini/phd/">Finnish translation</a> by Joutsiniemi Anssi.
  </li>

  <li>
  <a href="http://tic-investigacion.blogspot.com/2016/01/doktoretza-zer-den-ulertzeko-marrazkien.html">Basque Translation</a>
  by <a href="https://twitter.com/jesusromo">Jesus Romo</a>.
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