A grad degree is a chance to be paid to work on a project of your choice, without as strong a demand to make it mass-marketable. It's a chance to work on a proj

A grad degree is a chance to be paid to work on a project of your choice, without as strong a demand to make it mass-marketable. It's a chance to work on a project where novelty and interestingness are the lead factors in the viability, and not how easy it is to sell it to end-users. How valuable is that? Well, that depends on you.