A good piece on going to grad school or not. It's tailored to the Humanities, but the advice is still relevant for the Sciences: https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/

A good piece on going to grad school or not. It's tailored to the Humanities, but the advice is still relevant for the Sciences: https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-to-grad-school-in-the-academic-humanities/ https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-... TLDR: Only go if you meet 1 of 2 conditions: 1) You are rich. 2) You get along with your advisor so well you know within 9 months of meeting/working with them that you'll be at their funeral no matter what. The chance of this is a dice roll with very heavy disadvantage (4xd20, choose lowest). Otherwise, try it out for a year, then bounce. It's not worth your time.