One fifth of British students meet the love of their life on campus

Thank you for visiting nature. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer. In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. A third-year chemistry student at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia, she started her PhD programme with no funding, which forced her to get side jobs bartending and waitressing.

When a funded position came up in another laboratory two years later, she made an abrupt switch from medicinal chemistry to computational chemistry.

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Last year at a conference I was talking to one of my mentors about how it felt to be in the final year of a PhD. Her reply summed it up:. Relationships are incompatible with PhDs, seems to be the conclusion. Put most simply, being the partner of a PhD student largely means accepting that the Thesis is the biggest part of both of your lives , and is a far bigger player in how your relationship goes than either of you are.

But how does that translate to dating ? There are a lot of advice-to-students articles about how to maintain relationships, but how does that translate for the single Grad student? Rest of the time spent hopping from one existential crisis to another, oscillating wildly between a range of contradictory emotions and over-thinking.

Living on almost no money. Eating cold leftovers for a week without anyone noticing. Killing plants. Writing abstracts. Rewriting abstracts. Missing deadlines.