Livre d'Or

I did two years of a nanomaterials PhD, and ended up extremely broken - that's a major contribution to why I can't work now. It was a very bad situation, with a dishonest & massively egotistical supervisor, in rural isolation, and bad health & safety practices. One co-worker committed suicide while I was there, and I left with a severe nervous breakdown and some lingering physical health effects. Every so often, I check up on the current state of the field (organic photovoltaics) and see with some satisfaction that the research angle I was looking at has been massively superseded anyway.

On the other hand, I'm not at all sure I'd be much better off if I'd managed to complete it.