PhD's metal roller-coaster

Ok, first let me express my mental roller coaster and then we will come to others roller coaster.

I am a 3rd year PhD student in a reputed institute in India. And for my luck, I am the only one who is working on experimental work in my lab. Let me give you the bad side and good of this first-ever moon landing.

The bad side: I have to collect all the equipment, instruments, pipettes, conical flask, weighing balance, stirrers blah blah blah.. everything on my own, obviously it is institute's money but I have to carry out all the formalities-(take this and that signatures, go to that building, call the vendors, bring those documents, the expiry date is coming and others) si so buy a pack of pipettes to understand the process just to buy the glassware, it took me two-three months.

The good side: I got to experience how to set up a lab, what are the basic needs to establish a lab, to whom you have to consult and in the meantime, you got to interact to so many people... got many acquaintances. That's a good side of course.

So the roller coaster from the starting of my PhD is not having a proper lab to work on, wasted my time, had a depression when I saw my friends who are doing well in their work with their established labs....

After the setup- I did some experiments and the results are publishable. So I wrote a paper and also a review article based on my topic. Then, it seems to me that my guide is not interested in publishing any article as she is new in his job and I don't know why, we never really sat in a table-chair to edit what I have written in the paper....she just said "yeah, great work.... nothing to change...." ... I mean... seriously are they really good or he is just lazy to read all the pages I have written without sleeping, watching serials, staying aloof from my friends family day and night just to finished this paper and published it. Oh hell.

This is the roller coaster of my PhD.

I have talked to my friends, colleagues, juniors and seniors regarding the ups and downs of their experiences in PhD. Some had the problem of guides/ supervisors like the supervisor scolded them to stay in the lab from 9 am to 6 pm with 1 hr lunch break and they got just Sunday as their holiday. Some other guides are hard to meet or very strict or some of my friends are too lazy to work and their guides don't say anything.... So I think everyone is having bad days in their PhD life.... it is not just me except for those lucky ones.

So let's not get depressed and go forward as there will always be the end as there is a start.

Fighting....