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That's actually sort of accurate. Some PhDs are lucky early, and can build on that success. Good for you! Good for them.

Most PhDs aren't so lucky, regrettably.

It took multiple tries for me, and at first I was convinced the game wasn't even winnable.

I finally beat it in 6 years, 2 months, with 71 hope, 3 conference papers, 3 papers, an idea, some cloud storage, and some late year anxiety lol.

My experience was: damn, I need to do tons of reading and research and writing. Like a full time job, not just chilling.

Which is a bummer. I was hoping I could just chill.

If you just want to chill, you definitely don't need any of the phd stuff. Pretty much everyone chills occasionally.