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[–] [email protected] 117 points 3 days ago (2 children)

A science PhD is fucking grueling.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And OnlyFans job is grueling fucking? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Classical Electrodynamics by Jackson helped me feel like a jock in Calculus.

Hitler meme that sums it up

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That is one of the funniest things I have seen in a very long time!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"Do I look like Feynman" is my favorite bit. Starting and ending with "fucking Bessel functions" is also very poetic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Now I'm reading about Bessel functions on my weekend.... how dare you.

[–] brbposting 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Simple man me detrackers then clicks 🤗

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wdym?

[–] brbposting 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Google is really shady. So whenever we use the share button on YouTube, they add a code to the end of the link that offers no benefit to us, but allows Google to tie your machine as source who shared the link that others click on. When you look at the link that you posted, you'll see the letters SI in it and after that, you see the tracker.

To work around this, on desktop, you can copy the link from the address bar, which won't include the code. Also, Firefox has a feature to copy links without trackers in them, because the practice is pervasive. On mobile, I would recommend just backspacing the junk in hopes of protecting your privacy a tiny bit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I see. I didn't realize that I had sent a link with trackers. Thanks for pointing it out!

[–] brbposting 2 points 2 days ago

Didn’t realize by design 🤓

Welcome welcome!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

As someone who didnt even pass their first year and dropped out, mind explaining whats involved in a PHD and why science ones are so grueling?

[–] WolfLink 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It’s basically just working for 6 years for not much pay while your friends who got jobs right out of undergrad are making at 3-5x as much.

[–] Croquette 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not only that, but all the political game involved in the academia is mental.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And the work-life balance is atrocious.

When I started, my advisor told me to not think of myself as an employee, but as a "researcher". IE I don't get to clock out, my life revolved around learning/reseaching

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

But having the PHD makes up for it after right?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Generally no if we consider it from a financial perspective. Whether or not it’s worth it on an emotional level is very individual

I work in engineering with a masters, and I make more than people with only a bachelors. However, even with the masters pay bump I am unlikely to ever make enough extra money to make up for the financial losses I incurred in getting the graduate degree. It’s only “worth it” financially if you work full time and have your company pay for the degree.

PHDs make about the same amount of money and get about the same positions as someone with an only Masters. You get a PHD because you love studying and research enough to basically give up half of a decade of your life.

I considered getting a PHD until I realized that >50% of the PHD students and graduates I spoke to described it as, “6 years of my life I’ll never get back”.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

😢😔

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

It really depends on the field. In some areas PhDs make less than bachelors.

[–] WolfLink 3 points 3 days ago

That’s what they say but I haven’t finished mine yet so I can only hope

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Me earlier in the thread