Solving a corporate problem is not much different from solving a scientific problem.

"Learning to survive and thrive once you are pulled out of your comfort zone is an experience that will benefit you for the rest of your life."

If you learn how to cope with contrary colleagues early in your career, particularly in the competitive atmosphere of a lab, you will develop valuable coping and people-management skills that will serve you time and again, wherever your career path takes you.

The last year of your Ph.D. is distinctly different from the ones that have come before it, because you'll focus primarily on transforming your hard work into thesis chapters.