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user-inactivated  ·  2506 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Great Retail Apocalypse of 2017

I've been in PhD programs in math and computer science. Then my stipend didn't cover family members' medical bills ('murica!) and I missed sleeping and I remembered I could be writing trivial CRUD forms for 40-more-like-15 hours a week and around 3 times the median income in my area.





am_Unition  ·  2506 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, I'm sorry, I had to do a bit of a performance art piece, here.

I thought it might be the best way to help him.

In graduate school, everyone is guaranteed to fail at something.

Honestly, I had already figured you're some kind of a sysadmingodmindcrypto, or maybe even a pure mathematician, so deal with it. And those don't come out of Phoenix University, usually.

...Is grad school just like this for me?

edit: sorry about the line above, I have to remind myself that the demonstration is over