anyone considering going to grad school?

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don't do it.







YWIA! :drink:

[belovedbride07]

LOL! I was doing some prep work for a Bible study the other day and realized, "Wow, I've forgotten how much homework sucks. I'm never getting my masters!"

[fuddyduddy]

I'll echo this sentiment, but replace "grad" with "nursing."

[NachoProblem]

Tritto. PhD school sucks.

[drloretta]

BTDT. And loved it after the first year.

[megalicious]

I'm contemplating my second... I just dread the homework.

[StJess80]

I've figured that part out...my only problem is, how do I get a job in my field without it? Sigh. Guess I better just suck it up.

[Deleted]

I can commiserate on hating school. I'm writing a 20 pg research paper as we speak.

[dr.girlfriend]

It's like childbirth. After a while your memory of how painful it was fades, and the end product is worth it, assuming you end up in a job you like. :-)

[Deleted]

currently studying neurology. our midterm is one week from today. we ran out of time during our FOUR HOUR LECTURE and didn't cover half of the slides, so he told us we can just read the slides and study the book. all of the material will be on the exam.

love it.

[dr.girlfriend]

Sept 25, 2012 20:05:26 GMT -5 tacom said:

currently studying neurology. our midterm is one week from today. we ran out of time during our FOUR HOUR LECTURE and didn't cover half of the slides, so he told us we can just read the slides and study the book. all of the material will be on the exam.

love it.

Get this. For realz.

www.amazon.com/Clinical-Neuroanatomy-Made-Ridiculously-Simple/dp/0940780925

[Deleted]

Every time I get my shit together:


whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/post/32258799570/every-time-i-try-to-get-my-sh-t-together

[Deleted]

thanks for the rec, dr. g! I will definitely take a look to see if it can fill a gap in my current youtube video/atlas/book approach.

the one highlight is that the night before the exam we have a human brain lab dissection, so that should help reinforce my studying. but I'd rather not wait until the night before to see how solid I am.

bleh.

[Deleted]

Sept 25, 2012 17:55:46 GMT -5 tacom said:

don't do it.







YWIA!

Like I tell my grad students. I already went to grad school and that's why I get to go home now. lol

[Deleted]

I miss school :-(

I still have to read stupid chapters of books and do research and write really, really long papers, but everything's just a lot more boring and I don't get to work my schedule around my social life. And things like typos and other things I didn't catch when proofreading bite me in the ass like 1000 times more. And I can't cut work when I am hungover/still drunk/sick/it's cold or rainy/I would prefer to be outside.

I would happily be in law school for the rest of my life if I could. And I wasn't one of those "I love learning about law" types.

[dr.girlfriend]

Sept 25, 2012 20:11:42 GMT -5 tacom said:

thanks for the rec, dr. g! I will definitely take a look to see if it can fill a gap in my current youtube video/atlas/book approach.

the one highlight is that the night before the exam we have a human brain lab dissection, so that should help reinforce my studying. but I'd rather not wait until the night before to see how solid I am.

bleh.

Nah, definitely study first. It's so much harder to make things out in a real brain cutting. It's all just varying shades of white and gray, not nice and technicolor like the book illustrations! They'll be like, "See here, how the hippocampal tissue is sclerotic..." and you'll be thinking, "I see nothing! What the hell are you talking about?!?" At least that is my experience, but I'm not a visual person. I have to put it all into words and concepts. Not great for neuroanatomy, but I get by. ;-)

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Sept 25, 2012 20:14:58 GMT -5 v said:

I miss school I don't get to work my schedule around my social life.

what?

[Deleted]

I could have told you this a long time ago.

Hopefully you'll like your job when you're done. I don't think you could pay me almost any amount of money to go back and do grad school over again. Worst 2 years of my life.

[cgpm]

I don't usually mind it, but today we spent our entire 2 hour class analyzing how our professors'a now 6 year old twins cried when they were babies. Seriously wanted to poke my eyes out!

[Deleted]

Oh my god, and I just remembered that my 3L year I only had class 4 days a week. I want to go to there.

[Deleted]

dr. g, my notes look like lisa frank threw up on them.

I have seven different colored highlighters. LOL. but you are right about identifying on a cadaver/specimen v. pictures. I've had a few WTF moments already, and we've been working mostly in the thorax/abdominal cavity, where structures are much larger. I just thought even if I can't identify everything visually, I'll still know the general relationships/functions -- or I'll stall and not know what he's talking about.

[HoneySpider]

Looking back, getting my master's wasn't bad. I got to go to school FT and work 10 hours/wk as a GA. In the summer I had another PT job.

Now getting my doctorate I still go to school FT but also work FT and commute 2 hours/day. I would enjoy it so much more if I just had school. But, it's almost over!

I think a lot of times it sucks in the moment but of course when you're done you're happy you did it and it doesn't seem as bad as you thought. But maybe that's just me.

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Sept 25, 2012 20:15:55 GMT -5 @buckybells said:

I could have told you this a long time ago.

Hopefully you'll like your job when you're done. I don't think you could pay me almost any amount of money to go back and do grad school over again. Worst 2 years of my life.

I was so, so dumb.
I expected grad school to be like a continuation of undergrad. I knew it would be a little quicker paced, a little more in depth - but I thought I'd be fine. I'd work out every day and drink with my friends on the weekends. I'd enjoy it. I always enjoyed learning.

I was so, so dumb.

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Sept 25, 2012 20:21:51 GMT -5 tacom said:

Sept 25, 2012 20:15:55 GMT -5 @buckybells said:

I could have told you this a long time ago.

Hopefully you'll like your job when you're done. I don't think you could pay me almost any amount of money to go back and do grad school over again. Worst 2 years of my life.

I was so, so dumb.
I expected grad school to be like a continuation of undergrad. I knew it would be a little quicker paced, a little more in depth - but I thought I'd be fine. I'd work out every day and drink with my friends on the weekends. I'd enjoy it. I always enjoyed learning.

I was so, so dumb.

It's so early on though! Maybe you'll get the hang of it? That was definitely how law school worked -- the first semester was tough because the whole style of learning and structure of classes and style of testing is so different than how everything had gone for the 17 years before. But it got much better once we got the hang of it (and was a joke for the last year, but that's another story). I know that schools are different, but part of the stress may be learning how to be a grad student.

[RoxMonster]

I'm a nerd and love school and actually cried my last day of Grad school. I enjoy being around other adults and having intelligent discussions (I teach HS students, so they generally don't share my love of English haha!). The homework sucked, especially working full-time, but I would do it all over again if I could (and it was free!). I am seriously considering a second Masters but the money won't work right now.

[Deleted]

I will say, the first semester of grad school was the worst. It was when we were really just getting to learn what our field was all about, so there was a lot of foundation coursework and the amount of information we were expected to learn was just overwhelming. I felt like there was no possible way I could read the amount of material I was assigned, let alone actually learn all of it. I felt like I could never truly relax because even if I had some free time, I "should" be studying. I was also working a lot more than I should have been and my mom got cancer toward the end of the semester, so maybe it wouldn't have been as horribly stressful the entire semester if that hadn't been the case.

Anyway, I never grew to love it, but it did get easier as time went on. Year 2 of my program had a lot of thesis and practicum work so the amount of reading assigned on a weekly basis was less, and there were fewer tests. So, hopefully the same will be the case for you.

Even though it sucks, you'll definitely get through it!

[chia]

Sept 25, 2012 20:15:52 GMT -5 tacom said:

Sept 25, 2012 20:14:58 GMT -5 v said:

I miss school I don't get to work my schedule around my social life.

what?

Team v.
Being in school was awesome.
I wish I could quit my real job, and go to school full time.

[mollz007]

Sept 25, 2012 20:07:32 GMT -5 tacom said:

Every time I get my shit together:


whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/post/32258799570/every-time-i-try-to-get-my-sh-t-together

I am right there with you. We can suffer together. Unfortunately, there is really no alternative for me because there arnt really many (good paying) jobs for people with a psychology BA.

[Myrrhine]

Sept 25, 2012 20:15:55 GMT -5 @buckybells said:

Hopefully you'll like your job when you're done. I don't think you could pay me almost any amount of money to go back and do grad school over again. Worst 2 years of my life.

This was pretty much my experience. I work in my field and enjoy my job, but if I had known how much I was going to hate grad school, I *never* would have gone.

I have so much more free time now, write shorter articles vs. papers (and have plenty of time to write the papers I do write), and make slightly more money. I am sure this all affects my perspective!

[nonsenseabound]

If dh wouldn't kill me, I would go back and get a master in library science. The I could get a university gig and it would be sweet. Sigh. Why didn't anyone tell,e about library sciences back in the day. Instead I went to law school. Waaahhhhh.