100 Reasons

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Monday, February 28, 2011

48. The two-body problem.

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Graduate school tends to delay marriage (see Reason 15 ), but if you decide to go to graduate school, you will likely spend many years as a ...
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Monday, February 21, 2011

47. It requires tremendous self-discipline.

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Graduate school is not like college. Perhaps so many people go to graduate school because they are mistakenly under the impression that it i...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

46. You may not finish.

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Presumably, very few people start graduate school with the intention of dropping out, but graduate school attrition rates are depressingly h...
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Monday, February 7, 2011

45. Nice advisers can be worse.

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If you suffer under a tyrranical adviser (see Reason 44 ) who expects you to meet high standards and strict deadlines, you may rise to the o...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

44. Advisers can be tyrants.

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The most important relationship of your graduate-school career is that between you and your adviser (or in some departments, “major professo...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

43. Attitudes about graduate school are changing.

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The Economist recently noted that “whining PhD students are nothing new,” and that is certainly true. Graduate students have been unhappy w...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

42. Your workspace reflects your status.

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Facilities vary greatly from one campus to another—and from one department to another—but office space is in short supply on nearly every ca...
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Saturday, January 1, 2011

41. Teaching is your first priority.

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If you are lucky enough to have a job as a teaching assistant, you will be told by your department that your studies are your first priority...
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