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A Game of Questionable Life Choices

Survive
Your PhD

A multiple-choice simulation of academic despair

⚠️ Contains: realistic supervisor emails · ambiguous p-values · free conference wine
Student Briefing // Confidential

You have been accepted into a doctoral programme. Congratulations. This is either the best or worst decision you have ever made. Statistically, both.

Programme
PhD in Something Nobody Understands
Supervisor
Actual genius who obtained a PhD in 2.5 years
Expected Duration
4 years (actual: 5–7)
Stipend
Technically Enough

You will face 10 situations. Each decision shapes four vital indicators. Some choices show their consequences immediately. Others will detonate quietly — 3 or 4 rounds later, without warning.

You will be told when a delayed consequence has been planted. You will not know which outcome arrives until it does.

🧠 Sanity
📋 Supervisor ✓
📄 Publications
🍺 Social Life
Ripple = delayed consequence

Outcome


Case Closed

The End.

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