Thank you TreeofLife and satchi. Means a lot.

Best wishes and good luck to us all!

So, I'm an int student (my nickname kind of gives it up haha) and hope to get some advice applying for a phd. I'll finish med school by october next year. I was wondering if there are programs that allow me to apply on 2015 and start at the end of 2016, beginning of 2017. This fall/spring semester is rather confusing. I'm currently thinking about applying to Harvard BBS (dream program) and others in UK, like Oxbridge, KCL, UCL. I'll have a 6 years lab experience, plus two summer internships at Mcmaster and University of Sao Paulo by the end of my undergrad. My grades are 8.2/10. Am I dreaming on applying this year/ to these universities?

Any comment is appreciated!

I think I've been through something similar last year. I got quite depressed over an experiment and couldn't make as much progress as I was supposed to. Do you have a good relationship with your supervisor? If so, telling face to face seems like the best option, even if you end up crying (personally, I've had some conversations with my supervisors that ended up in us both crying haha, but everyone is different, depends on your relationship with him/her). Another piece of advice would be to talk to someone that maybe went through this hard time, like a tecnician, post-doc or even another PhD student you're close to. Finally, if you have enough time, try cutting some slack. Read whatever you want to read for a day or two, travel, go camping, start running miles everyday, space out for a bit. My experience took me from biomedical sciences to philosophy and back to biomedical haha. I just needed a time off. If you can do that, I think it would help. Hope this helps, don't forget the reason why you're doing all this (:. Oh, and sorry for my english, I'm not native.