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

sciencemag.org/careers/2017/04

depression, academia 

first one's hyperbolic, i know plenty of people who went into this level of academia

but i know plenty more who avoided it like the plague because it's monstrous and there's no support system for you there

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

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