[Balgair]

https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-...

This is a timeless entry. It's aimed at humanities, but every STEMy person I have shown it to agrees with it.

TLDR: Only get a PhD under 2 conditions:

1 - You are rich and otherwise very bored.

2 - If by Christmas in your first year in grad school, you are absolutely certain that you and your PI get along so well that nothing could hold you back from carrying that coffin at their funeral.

If either condition is not met stringently, you're wasting yours and everyone else's time.

[mold_aid]

2 is key. omg the number of students who are like "I want to be a professor" and can barely name a program they're targeting much less the people in it

[Balgair]

undergrad or grad students?