It's incredible realizing that I have two decades of work experience, and have peers that have been "in the field" for less than a few years! To each his own.

It's incredible realizing that I have two decades of work experience, and have peers that have been "in the field" for less than a few years! To each his own. I think higher education in America is primarily designed to degrate and beat students into submission. As I've heard repeated elsewhere, the road to tenured PhD is paved with grad-student bodies.