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PhD Simulator

by Mianzhi Wang

About the Story

Congratulations. You have been admitted as a new PhD student here. Will you accept the offer?

Technically a random event driven text-based game.

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v.4: 04-Oct-2024 20:12 - Zape (Current Version) - Edit Page - Normal View
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v.3: 04-Oct-2024 19:17 - TestTubeHuman
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  v.2: 04-Oct-2024 19:17 - TestTubeHuman
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v.1: 04-Oct-2024 19:16 - TestTubeHuman
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2 Off-Site Reviews

Hacker News Post
This is great and exactly captures the PhD experience. Both in the simulator and in real life, I mostly survived until the end by slacking off frequently, and needed around 5 years.

Some highlights:

> INBOX: Based on the reviewers' comments, we regret to inform you that your manuscript has been REJECTED for publication. One of the reviewers pointed out that there is no comparison with a state-of-art method.
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The Scholarly Kitchen
Experience Graduate School with this PhD Simulator
Mianzhi Wang, a graduate of a doctoral program in electrical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has created an old-school text-style simulator for the graduate school experience.
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