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Limbo; purgatory; a place where you waste the best years of your life apprenticing for the PhD guild.

THE BAD: - endless homework - potentially asshole professors - little social life - boring repetitive classes - dull TA work - shit pay - you might end up in the middle of nowhere - constant moving massacres relationships. Remember the girlfriend who left you because she couldn't take the long-distance relationship? Your friends? The family you see for 2 weeks per year? Better forget them... Easier that way. - having to teach obscenely hot 18 year olds without being able to touch them - leads to frigidity and involuntary abstinence - it's 4am. You went to class between 9 and 12. You ate pretzels for lunch, then you graded for 4 hours. Then you wrote homework. Now your eyes are bleeding and you have the urge to cut. - once (if) you graduate, you have to move again, in order go to post-doc, which is the same as grad school except you get a few bucks more and you write fewer pages of homework - incipient alcoholism

THE GOOD: - incipient alcoholism - easy ticket to the first world for talented third worlders - easy ticket to a big city if you luck out - you can really slack away if you play your cards right - 3+ months of vacation - sort of intellectual - beats the fucking 9 to 5. You're making 40K working 40 hours a week with 2 weeks vacation? In grad school people can make ~20K with ~10 hours of work per week and 3 months vacation. You do the math.

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