Amazing thumbnail and 420 video length 1010 <| sep |> i haven ' t laughed this hard in years . thank you <| sep |> Try to avoid swearing when advising other people to chill out <| sep |> So you ' re saying it ' s like every major city in pretty much every state ? <| sep |> The robotics thing is sort of a side venture not related to my phd . I ' m the leader of a small student organization competing in an international ROV competition . Robots aren ' t hard to get into , a raspberry pi and ROS will get you a long way alone . As for the PhD I ' m working on reservoir computing using in vitro neuron cultures . I don ' t really care much for the deep learning field , I prefer walking the path less taken in that respect . If what we ' re doing turns out to be useful I ' m sure it can be applied in deep learning anyways . If you want to do something similar my best advice is to be as methodical and meticulous as you can . Everything you do has to be purposeful , you can ' t waste time following wild tangents no , learning russian at 200 AM before a midterm is not excusable no matter how sever your ADHD is . If you want to pursue a PhD you must have solid fundamentals and strong grades . Following current research is fairly worthless unless you are already actively researching in the field , it ' s the fundamentals that equip you to come up with your own creative research . Also , don ' t worry on spending time figuring things out . I wasted 4 years with nothing to show for it thanks to ADHD bullshit . It still hurts , but it turns out that it doesn ' t really matter . No one in academia has ever made a remark on it which is a huge relief .