How to evolve from a student to a researcher?

The question in the title is actually what puzzles me a lot, and since I’m living on campus, I have heard how PhD students and young researchers are suffering. Some of these complaints, especially those about programmers, are of course jokes, but I also know…

A little piece of eternity…

“Euclid, what the hell are you doing?!” As a 14-year-old student struggling with my geometry problem sets in secondary school, I was staring at the heavy white brick in front of me, scattered with crazy shapes in ink that only became crazier as I scanned through…