So, you're thinking about grad school...
Feb 28 '03
The Bottom Line Updated bottom line, because my last one sounded whiny: Ten reasons you should go to grad school!
Ah, so you think you want a PhD in a science discipline. Before you rush out and take those GRE's, be sure you're going for the right reasons!
For the uninitiated:
10. You always wanted to re-live the politics and social interactions of Jr. High and were interested to see how they would play out in the adult world (faculty, I'm referring to faculty).
9. If you're a parent, you were wondering what it would be like to hear your kids say "Mac and Cheese AGAIN, mom?" Or "mom? Oh yeah, she's the lady with the raccoon eyes. I've heard of her."
8. You have always been curious about Relativity. You wanted to know exactly how one person could fit 70 hours of work into one day.
7. You have been waiting all your life to get paid back for those lousy teacher evaluations you gave your TAs back in your freshman year.
6. You consider ibuprofen and coffee as separate food groups and sleep as optional.
5. You've always wondered if you dream in Green Florescent Color, and if you found out you did, you were curious to know if you could reference it as a personal communication.
4. You believe guilt should be a prerequisite to relaxing and that light reading is a paper about shared receptors in axon guidance (or anything similar).
3. You have spent your life wanting to do the same experiment over and over again, or even better, wanting to start your research over because the stupid freezer was unplugged by the janitor in the middle of the night. You believe incurring brain damage from hitting walls a million times would be FUN!
2. You think the perfect way to spend a Friday night and Saturday morning is hanging out with your little fly buds, eating uncooked ramen noodles and watching the sun rise together.
1. Okay, the number one reason is to get a PhD: you want to contribute to society, direct your own research, and donate five or more years of your life to science in a not-so-unique study of the effects of stress on aging.
Perhaps I should write a 'real' list. There really are plenty of upsides-like realizing how very little you actually know (this really is an upside) and, ultimately, defending. Well, I've heard defending is an upside, but I can't vouch for that yet.
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