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Report as: spam offensive Sorry on 5/05/08 at 10am

There's nothing "unusual" about isolation and fragmentation in graduate school, particularly in the sciences.
Maybe it's not partytime like college, but that's because you actually have to *gasp* work for a living when doing a PhD.
If they didn't know they were going to be spending a lot of time in a lab being a professor's slave, I question who they talked to when visiting graduate schools.

Report as: spam offensive Not Sorry on 5/05/08 at 7pm

What's so bad about trying to make a place a little better. Lighten-up "Sorry" and see that this glass is half full!

Report as: spam offensive Not Sorry Either on 5/06/08 at 12am

I agree with "Not Sorry". Grad students should work hard out of personal motivation and self interest. Not because they feel obligated to put time in to make their professors happy. A self motivated hard working grad student is much more productive, and may actually come up with new ideas, as opposed to one that bitterly feels obliged to spend 12 hours a day in the lab. Interaction among students fosters this sense of motivation and new ideas.




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