{"id":1967,"date":"2009-03-29T04:13:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T09:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2009-03-29T04:13:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T09:13:26","slug":"not-too-bitter-not-too-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1967","title":{"rendered":"Not too Bitter, not too Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/incoherently-scattered.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/no-bitterness-rule.html\">No bitterness rule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advice on deciding on whether or not one should go to grad school.  Striving to be realistic, without flavoring it too much in either direction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Y]ou should know the basic facts of grad school experience: most experiments do NOT produce useful results, but that shouldn&#8217;t stop you from trying. You are not guaranteed an academic job after your PhD &#8211; or any job in specific geographic area or any specific type of the job. You will be making minimum wage-like salaries for ~5-7 years, and even though postdocs get paid more, it is not much more. But for this time you will have the company of like-minded people who are extremely smart, you will learn a lot, and since you live only once, grad school will certainly provide a unique experience that will shape your outlook on life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;You will make a lot of money&#8221; isn&#8217;t on the list of what happens afterward, either.  (It certainly <em>can<\/em> happen, but it probably won&#8217;t).  But what the PhD helps enable is the opportunity to work on interesting problems.  So if the whole &#8220;hanging out with smart people&#8221; angle appeals to you, it&#8217;s certainly something to consider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No bitterness rule Advice on deciding on whether or not one should go to grad school. Striving to be realistic, without flavoring it too much in either direction. [Y]ou should know the basic facts of grad school experience: most experiments &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1967\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}