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by glial 498 days ago
> no thesis represents more than 1 year's worth of work. The reason it takes most Ph.D.s 5-10 years (8 in my case) to graduate is that you have to fail, and fail, and fail again for 4-9 years before you find your thesis project.

This exactly describes my own experience - 9 years for me. It was a miserable experience, but trying a lot of things that don't work, and then admitting to yourself that they won't work, is honestly great emotional endurance training to be a scientist.