you know you are in the peak of your PhD program when..

you don't just hear people talking about conferences, you want to write a paper to attend it.

you finally know what you are aiming for, and what your project title means.

you have to rush for your project results because you wasted your previous year trying to figure out what your project title means.

you are spending all your time to achieve significant results for a conference paper publication dateline which is always just around the corner.

you start talking to yourself, telling yourself what you should do and what you shouldn't do, making up a multi-people discussion with yourself and maybe your computer.

you start working in the wee hours of the night, and prefer to camp in your office.

you are well known to the security people, because you need them to unlock and lock the labs for you when you have to work after 5pm.

you have a wet bath towel draped across your office chair, because that is the only place you can hang it.

you don't really bother clearing or tidying up your messy office cubicle, because it will only be messed up again.

you go to uni on weekends and not feeling weird about it. in fact, you enjoy the peacefulness and how much more work you can get done on that day.















you have nothing better to do than take crappy photos of where you are, while waiting for your desired results to be churned out...