Nick Mulgrew

Nick Mulgrew (born 1990) is a South African-British short story writer, novelist, poet, and editor. In addition to his writing, he is the founder and director of the poetry press uHlanga. Quotes I think it’s a common experience for this current cohort of PhD students. What no one tells you about working toward a PhD is that there is no safety net. A PhD is often about pursuing new or radical directions of research, and often you get very far in that direction, only to find out that what you find there is not useful, or in fact complicates your research so much that you have to start the entire project again, as I have had to do. How well you deal with those setbacks is one of the real tests of the PhD, and, unfortunately, your mental health – and thus your health in general – is at risk. A few years ago I might have agreed with the notion that we need to suffer for art or education, but I believe now there is enough suffering in the world. Suffering is different to hard work, although we often mistake the one for the other. I do not like the idea that people need to suffer for their degrees. I know that people need degrees for a variety of professional and economic reasons. And I know there are some A-type, rise-and-grind Insta-losers who would disagree with me, but there are so many people right now who are just killing themselves with stress: our bodies can only take so much strain before they begin to shut down. External links Category:Living people