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fuck no grad school
it's better than a real job, right?
Why can’t people READ?
So I’m trying to recruit people to take my survey for my residency project. It’s about people who choose to transfer the friends they’ve made online to their offline lives, so I thought - gee! Why not recruit people online! So far I’ve gotten:
- People who can’t read the age requirements, get midway through, and go, “Oh. I’m too old. You can just discard my responses, right?”
- Someone complaining that the study requirements are not listed and it’s a waste of people’s time to make them take a survey they aren’t qualified for. Except that the requirements are in the informed consent that you said you read and agreed to before you took the survey.
- About 50 responses I can’t use for at least one of the above reasons. Out of 62 possible responses. WOW.
Really? Someone remind me why I want to do research for a living again?
(Fine print: if anyone wants to redeem my faith in humanity and take the study, it’s here, for those of you between the ages of 18 and 25 who have made at least one friend on the interwebs).
I think I was hungover when I decided to go
to college. Here’s what you should expect:
- you will gain weight
- by the time you finish you’re either alcoholic or bipolar
- your only real friends are the ones you made in school
- bitching
- you will learn nothing
Well, I certainly lost weight in grad school. Being broke and anxiety-ridden does that. And I’ve learned a lot. Whether I’ll end up using much of it in “real life” is another matter. But you are on the money with numbers 2, 3, and 4. You find out who your real friends are when you all bitch about your advisors over a couple of drinks. It’s what keeps you sane.
THAT bad?
I’m afraid that what I’m going to post may be too depressing, but hey you asked for it!
The quote below is taken from ‘A Mental Makeover for the Graduate Student’ by Shannon Duvall, July/August 2008. Available (free access) from:
http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/~hamzaoglu/students/gradstudent_mental_makeover.pdf
“The 2004 Berkeley Graduate Student Mental Health Survey indicates that almost half of graduate students at Berkeley report having emotional or stress-related problems that seriously
affect their well-being. Almost 10% have seriously considered
suicide, and approximately one in 200 students have attempted
suicide. It is essential that graduate students equip themselves
with the skills to handle the life changes of graduate school, yet there are few resources for gaining these skills.(11)”
WTF?!? Is this for real? Yikes….
That lab.
One of several late-night lab incidents this semester.
hahaha no it’s for maladjusted people with no lives and a taste for pain.
my friend and colleague LV on graduate school.
(shared by thespiceagony)
Debt, Time, and the Job Market for Humanities PhDs » Sociological Images
Of those students that finish in the Humanities, devoting five to fifteen (maybe miserable) years of their life to post-graduate work, about one-third will be unemployed. Just about 50 percent of graduates will find some kind employment in academia, this includes part-time and temporary work (and increasingly so). As you can see, very few find work outside of academia.
(shared by eifersucht)
The joy of being a teaching assistant…
melcor says: Don’t you just love it when students complain to their teaching assistants (me and you)? Their complaints and concerns seem so stupid and meaningless. If they only knew how bad grad students have it…
If they realized, they would get out after graduating, and not apply to grad school and get all excited and post updates on Tumblr about how they got accepted. Why get excited over years of ramen, thankless teaching assistant jobs and crying under your desk? Is it still masochism when you don’t know what you’re letting yourself in for?
