Everyone is telling me to "hang in there", but hanging in there can only
lead me to nervous breakdown eventually. I have been having trouble doing
research. I actually didn't get any research done since my master program in
China. I had a lot of papers published after I came to US, but still not
much quality research is done. Not until last semester, when I was in my 4th
year of phd and talked about my graduation with my advisor, did I start to
do some real research. My advisor assigned me a new