depression, academia
literally everyone i know: "i didn't go into academia because it's too hard"
professors: "students these days are so lazy and untalented"
and then there's this
https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2017/04/phd-students-face-significant-mental-health-challenges
depression, academia
idk about other schools but my boyfriend got his master's in computer science and his profs actively encouraged them to be aggressively competitive and it was gross af
and that's just for master's