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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 05:23:18 2020 No.11891949 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11891957 >>11891964 >>11891975 >>11892040 >>11892047 >>11892048 >>11895390

Have any of you dropped out of a PhD program?

Why and do you regret it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 05:26:07 No.11891957 Report

Quoted By: >>11891983 >>11892000

>>11891949
Not technically "dropped out" but I quit for a year due to mental illness and then went back.
>do you regret it
I regret losing a year but I didn't really have a choice, I was into the "my family are conspiring to poison my food" zone. I couldn't work at all, let alone at the level you have to in grad school.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 05:27:50 No.11891964 Report

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>>11891949
All hail love the tree-lover and levantine bomber.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 05:33:45 No.11891975 Report

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>>11891949
Most people here can't even finish their undergrad, let alone be accepted into a PhD program.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 05:40:47 No.11891983 Report

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>>11891957
How did you feel getting back into it? I'm slowly getting out of a similar hole (though in undergrad), and I'm kind of anxious about being rusty when I start back.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 05:50:14 No.11892000 Report

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>>11891957

I have an MS, I am thinking about a PhD because it's very convenient to continue where I am at but there is a nontrivial chance of me exiting it.

Towards the end of my MS I felt like driving head first into a semi.....

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 06:07:50 No.11892039 Report

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>>11891983
Rust is hardly a problem at all. The pace takes a couple weeks to adjust to and then it just becomes normal. It's probably worse if you just quit studying entirely while you're off, or if you take a really long many-year gap.
I felt very awkward socially at first but people mostly just acted like nothing had happened, I guess since really nothing did from their perspective. You're not all that big of a deal to most other people.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 06:08:00 No.11892040 Report

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>>11891949
I dropped out because Ive mastered the material on my

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 06:10:00 No.11892047 Report

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>>11891949
Ask me in a month. I'm ABD and had to move away from the area before my research was complete, due to my job (which besides supporting my family also paid for my education but needed me back). Work and family and now Covid have minimized my time back there and I am possibly out of extensions.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 06:10:09 No.11892048 Report

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>>11891949

Who is this guy? Been seeing his picture everywhere on this website

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 06:11:14 No.11892049 Report

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>>11892048
It says it right in the file name, retard.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 07:05:41 No.11892142 Report

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>>11892048
you have to lurk for 4 years before being allowed to poast

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 08:02:19 No.11892239 Report

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>>11892048
He was really into fertilizer and diy projects

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 20:42:13 No.11894313 Report

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>>11892047

wats it in?

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 20:45:39 No.11894331 Report

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>>11892048
Charles Manson

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2020 21:42:32 No.11894584 Report

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>>11892048
every mathematician's hero

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Anonymous Mon 13 Jul 2020 02:03:57 No.11895390 Report

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>>11891949
I dropped put with a master's.

I suppose I'd be regretful if I left as a conscience decision. It was more just a confluence of circumstances. My group was all chinks and we all got along terribly. I didn't care for the research, and I found the subject matter boring. I sometimes think of going back to get a pH.d but academia itself isn't interesting to me.

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Anonymous Mon 13 Jul 2020 02:26:58 No.11895438 Report

Quoted By: >>11895486 >>11895505

Is a PhD even worth it if I have zero interest in academia?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jul 2020 02:44:36 No.11895486 Report

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>>11895438
Maybe for personal interest or a sense of achievement. But for industry jobs, the tiny advantage that PhDs get over Masters is not worth extra 4 years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jul 2020 02:48:25 No.11895499 Report

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>>11895486
Is it common that an industry job may demand a PhD before you can advance further in your career? That is the only scenario I can imagine myself doing it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jul 2020 02:50:38 No.11895505 Report

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>>11895438

No. You will either deal with people who just want the title and then do something else. Or you will deal with people that will try to publish every nonsense just so they can climb the academic ladder.

People who are honestly trying to do something new and refreshing are very very difficult to find, and increasingly so because academia caters to agreeableness and also professors love to exploit people under the guise of research.

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