We are four students that have came to our projects via different pathways, and we found that the more we talked to each other, the less we actually knew what was going on. We found that there was not a lot of resources from a student perspective about the bits outside of the science. So, basically we started a blog to complain about being PhD students, but made it ~different~ We wanted to have a space that allowed us to share, discuss and learn about the many aspects of a Ph