100 Reasons

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Monday, August 6, 2018

98. Your family pays a price.

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Few people choose to become parents while living the life of relative poverty that graduate school entails. If you go to graduate school, in...
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Monday, August 7, 2017

97. It steals your future.

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Billionaire Warren Buffet attributes his wealth to “a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.” With savi...
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Monday, August 15, 2016

96. Degrees go stale.

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One of the cruelest twists on the arduous path through graduate school comes at the very end. As soon as you finish a doctoral program that ...
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Monday, September 21, 2015

95. Academics are unhappy.

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You know that today's graduate students are unhappy when the Wall Street Journal can refer (and not entirely facetiously) to the world...
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Monday, October 27, 2014

94. It warps your expectations.

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Graduate students develop unreasonable expectations, but over the course of a long spell in graduate school those expectations swing from on...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

93. There is no getting ahead.

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Graduate school attracts highly ambitious people, despite the fact that academe is a terrible environment for highly ambitious people. How s...
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Monday, January 13, 2014

92. There is a social cost.

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As you grow older, you begin to appreciate the value and rarity of genuine friendships. Graduate school is hard on friendships, and so is th...
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Monday, September 9, 2013

91. Downward mobility is the norm.

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The term "downward mobility" describes the phenomenon of falling into a social class lower than the one into which you were born. ...
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