I’m doing a PhD in Economics right now and it’s not too stressful at this point when I’m just working on research. But my first two years when I needed to take

I’m doing a PhD in Economics right now and it’s not too stressful at this point when I’m just working on research. But my first two years when I needed to take classes and pass exams and then Covid happened they were some of the worst times of my life. I don’t know how much of that is just how our university responded to the virus though. I guess I got through that grinder (only a little more than half of us did) in the end but now my experience is completely the opposite to what I’m seeing from others in this thread. Maybe it’s just that engineering is different.