At the beginning there was...

... the word? Well, yes, you could put it like that if you wanted to. The word, however, was more like an idea, which slowly and silently cropped up in my head and remained there ever since:

PhD, baby!

What a plan. Left home, family and friends, all that was familiar and precious, in order to sacrifice 36 (+ 12) months in front of enormous stacks of dusty books and, of course, the screen!

All of this was done for the purpose of researching life on the screen, following in the steps of Turkle and all those like-minded new age scientists who would never shy away from experimenting with the new. Those, who would entirely immerse themselves in what came to be known and hyped as cyberspace, an alternative sphere, quite different from and at the same time synonomous to what is real.

Why did I choose this extraordinary path instead of remaining with what was known to me, secure and cozy?

It's a precarious adventure, one that I wouldn't dare to miss. It's a great opportunity.

It might be the time of my life.