For those of you who are unfamiliar with the process, earning a PhD involves a number of things, which boil down to these: a lot of work followed by a final exam.
On the evening of September 25th, 2017, I sat in my tiny attic office in the Netherlands, crouched under a slanted ceiling, finalizing preparations for the next day. At one o’clock, I had to be…
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