The worst? I stopped to do research after my PhD and now, I forgot everything. Dumb as a rock AND without any useful knowledge of my very peculiar subject.
But I still have the paper, yay!
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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But surely everyone greets you by saying "Dr. Fossilesque, I presume?".
That alone has got to be worth the overqualification issues.
Finishing up my thesis but, god I hope not. Those people are insufferable.
I called an associate professor by a common nickname derived from his actual name, thing is that it draws the thought to some drug addict from the 70’s. When I got my phd, he took to calling me by my title as a revenge.
What will you be doctoring?
Probably other doctors.
That's right, at the Skool of Hard Knocks.
The governor's signature
Better than people who insist on being called "Dr."
That's what I was referring to. 😅
And a lot of debt, usually. Don't forget that one.
I got paid for the PhD. Not as much as I would have earned as a computer button pusher, but enough to live on.
If you have to pay to get a PhD then you were fleeced and probably deserve to lose that money
Yeah, I got paid to do gradschool. Not much cuz I didn’t shop around and just stayed where I did undergrad, but yeah, once you’re doing research, they should be paying you.
pls no bully yanks
yanks are fren not food
I don’t know, there are lots of PhD programs in the U.S. where you’re a research assistant, which basically means your tuition is free and you’re paid a stipend for the research. In my experience, I’ve only met US PhD students who were fully funded.
From what I've heard, PhD positions in the US are funded in STEM fields, but not in the arts and social sciences. But I could be wrong.
Apologies for the Reddit link, but this explains a lot of what I would have said: https://www.reddit.com/r/GradSchool/comments/qwgl6h/why_is_there_a_commonly_repeated_idea_on_this_sub/
Ah, that's interesting. So I guess the idea that arts PhDs don't get funding in the US is (mostly) a myth?
I think people think that having to TA means they’re not being funded or something like that. If you’re getting into a program that doesn’t fully fund you, then that program doesn’t want you or it’s not a good research program. All reputable PhD programs fully fund across disciplines.
According to the NCES, in 2015-16 the average PhD graduate had about $100k student debt
I think most of these are from undergrad and master. AFAIK most PhD are fully funded. Not enough to pay any debt, but usually enough to not starve.
Maybe you should look outside of the US.
Ya got me there.
The more PhDs I know and the closer I am to grad school, the more it feels like getting a PhD is about being stubborn than it is about being smarter than everyone in the room.
Yes.
In my experience it's being stubborn or possessing a robust resiliency to mental health damage. Being smart, or better yet from a family that is wealthy enough to support you just makes everything a fair bit easier.
Also, making friends with your advisors doesn't hurt either.
I honestly believe that the usefulness of a specific piece of knowledge resembles the logarithmic curve, the higher your education already is.
If I were* smarter
When using be in an if clause for an unreal conditional sentence, always conjugate it as were, no matter what the subject is. Even if the subject is first-person singular (I) or third-person singular (he, she, or it), still use were with an if clause in unreal conditional sentences.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/conditional-sentences-was-instead-of-were/
TIL: This is an artefact of my regional dialect. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-variation-and-change/article/abs/new-role-for-an-ancient-variable-in-appalachia-paradigm-leveling-and-standardization-in-west-virginia/3F069F1A76FBFFB75566131FB9D955C9 Apparently, the leveled was is a thing.
I do not regret not going to grad school
Wait, we're all in low resolution? 
We always was ( Insert astranouts meme ).
🌍 
we rly be living in emoji luxury on my instance
Oh wait shjt j meant to reply to the meme abour pi digits that doesn't make any sense
If you found it interesting and enriching to do that’s the most important shit. You have the opportunity to research a subject you like now I guess at least