I presumed that you have started the PhD program.

Since you belong to the first generation of PhD students, you need set up the equipment and apparatus you’ll need to acquire data. Lacking the support of an established group, you and your fellow colleagues will probably spend a lot of energy in building equipment, designing research methods, constructing new empirical models, learning how to use curve-fitting tools, or even writing new programming codes in Mathematica, C#, Anduino.

What is your real concern?

Don’t make the mistake of keeping problems to yourself. Everyone hits a difficult patch at some point in their graduate student years, so having problems is nothing to be ashamed of.

Would you tell us your research topic?