As an M.Sc. drop-out, I can appreciate the dire warnings in Dorothea Salo’s Straight Talk about Graduate School. Yeah, I went in with no idea what on earth I was doing, and lost enthusiasm pretty quickly (the really long University strike, which gave me a chance to complete my B.Sc., got me out of the habit of attending classes). Calling it quits came after months of denial, and a semester studying teaching, and other silliness, and I still feel the ache in the stump of the paw I chewed off to get out of that trap. Whenever I hear something cool about Biology (Molecular, Behavioral, whatever), I think Yeah, cool, Biology. I gave that up
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