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Save a Grad Student!

 

Some of our readers and contributors are grad students.  Since they should be off now for Christmas break, I thought they would appreciate the sentiments in the above video.  Of course it is too late for them.  For any of our readers contemplating becoming grad students, this video might be a salutary warning:

The Simpson’s say it all as to the consequences of producing at least 5 Phds for every 1 academic position, and my generation, the baby boomers, seeming to wish to hold on to their professorships until the Grim Reaper takes them to the groves of academia in the hereafter:

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Paul Zummo
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Monday, December 20, AD 2010 6:11am

Hey, the big payoff is the thrill of getting Christmas cards from my more formal friends addressed to Doctor and Mrs. Zummo. So there’s that.

Yeah.

kylekanos
kylekanos
Monday, December 20, AD 2010 6:55am

I’m a grad student in Physics and am glad that there are at least research positions that can be open if academia is unobtainable when I graduate in 3 years.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Monday, December 20, AD 2010 10:35am

You already know more useful stuff than your profs.

A young mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Teresa
Monday, December 20, AD 2010 4:01pm

The cost of an undergraduate degree has already necessarily skyrocketed so I doubt that in addition to that that I will be pursuing a graduate degree.

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