"The danger with grad school is that you don't see the scary part upfront. PhD programs start out as college part 2, with several years of classes. So by the ti

"The danger with grad school is that you don't see the scary part upfront. PhD programs start out as college part 2, with several years of classes. So by the time you face the horror of writing a dissertation, you're already several years in. If you quit now, you'll be a grad-school dropout, and you probably won't like that idea. When Robert got kicked out of grad school for writing the Internet worm of 1988, I envied him enormously for finding a way out without the stigma of failure." http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html