Things I wish someone had told me when I was doing my Phd

I have no idea how relevant this is to other people (especially those who actually are cut out for academia!), but thought I should get it down before the whole thing becomes a blur. Very much based on my experiences as a computational mathematics student in Australia. This is just off the top of my head, I may add to this later.

Two major things:

• (Pretty much) every single Phd student ever feels like a lazy failure. Seriously, read Piled Higher and Deeper, it's not just you.
  
• If part of your motivation in life up until now has been jumping through a set of hoops to prove how clever you are let it go.
  

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