My expectation when I went to grad school would be that I would have more freedom to do what I was interested in than I ever had before. What I found was that

My expectation when I went to grad school would be that I would have more freedom to do what I was interested in than I ever had before. What I found was that what I had to do was far more constricting than undergrad; I had take take courses on things I was completely uninterested, do research I couldn't care less about, and teach undergraduates stuff that I got a D+ in when I was an undergrad, because it was so boring. That said, I am probably not cut out for being a scientist anyway. But what drew me to science was the lure of following my intellectual interests, and it turns out I'd have to do the very opposite.