These are the results of a a poll for evaluating the excitement level of CS/Math students research.

First, the raw data (45 votes, 30 for M.Sc. students, and 15 for Ph.D. students). It shows vote timestamp, student's degree in process (1 for M.Sc., 2 for Ph.D.), research status (1-3, see below), and the level of interestedness of the research (1-9, see below).

Research status means where the students are with their research:

1. Did not submit research proposal yet
2. Have chosen a direction, and are working on it
3. Finalizing their research/thesis, or are done with it

Level of research interestedness was divided as follows:

1. Totally boring
2. Very uninteresting
3. Quite uninteresting
4. Rather uninteresting
5. Can't decide, really
6. Rather interesting
7. Quite interesting
8. Very interesting
9. Totally exciting

The graphs below show all votes, and two aggregations with values for interestedness level shown as percentage of the votes for the given aggregation.

What conclusions can be drawn from these graphs? Most students consider their research quite interesting. Moreover, almost all Ph.D. students find their research at least quite interesting (number of votes for "totally exciting" is almost the same as for "quite interesting"). However, none of the M.Sc. students find their research totally exciting, while about third of them don't find their research interesting at all.

When considering the different progress status of the research, we see that, while students who just begin their research often can't tell whether it's interesting or not, they split toward the research completion, with quite significant portion of them rating their research as very uninteresting! From the second graph we see that these are mostly M.Sc. students (only one Ph.D. student voted "very uninteresting", also note that none of the Ph.D students who voted put themselves at the beginning of their research).

In summary, we see that Ph.D. students are much happier than M.Sc. students. Also, there doesn't seem to be a tendency to re-evaluate the interestedness level of the research towards its completion.