
· Samir Akre-Bhide · Journal
PhD Year 5 Summary
My final year - defended, graduated, and transitioned to the next chapter.

My final year - defended, graduated, and transitioned to the next chapter.

A year of rejection, pivots, and finding my research direction while stepping back from AiroSolve.

My 3rd year flew by. I still don't believe it is already over and I feel like I still have not done much research.

The second year of this PhD was strange. I don't feel like I was particularly productive and I'm not sure if I can disentangle how much was pandemic and how much was regular un-productivity.

In August of 2020, I spent a night indoors and got sucked into the dark space that is ergonomics youtube, leading me to impulse spend $365 on a split keyboard.

"Is this a real startup?", I would often ask myself in the time between working on projects.