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What was your experience with graduate school?
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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Yeah I find most of this to be similar to what I’ve heard so that’s good confirmation, thank you.
The reason I’m considering it now is that: 1. I believe it will be applicable to industry and will raise my initial pay and work out in the long run. 2. I don’t want to work through a masters. 3. It will only take me 1 year to do it. And 4. I have a way to pay for it so I expect it to accrue very minimal debt. I have about $25k debt from my bachelors but I expect not much more to come from my masters from scholarships/assistant for a professor.
So I’m viewing this as more of a deal, I wouldn’t consider a masters if any one of these things weren’t the case probably.
Complete in only a year? I've never heard of doctorate programs running less than 2 to 3 years in the engineering world.
Still, it sounds like you've done the necessary planning and have a career path lined out for it. If that's the case, fuck it. Go for it.