> it's all the more important that you go into grad school with some strength of opinion and position on what you want to achieve Indeed. I stayed on to do a

> it's all the more important that you go into grad school with some strength of opinion and position on what you want to achieve Indeed. I stayed on to do a PhD at the same institution where I did my undergraduate degree, with hindsight I think this might be a poor choice. There was very much a feeling of prospective grad students competing (indeed begging) for PhD places, with not much in the way of due diligence...