Nobody Wants to Talk About: My PhD stipend is considered financial aid, and not a salary but I am treated more like a worker not a student.
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Imposter Syndrome: When I get a NIH grant but believe that the 4 months I spent working on it had nothing to do with it being accepted.
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Nobody Wants to Talk About: Principal investigators (PIs) departing their institutions, leaving students struggling to find the support that they need to complete their dissertation.
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@prachithakurphd@PhDVoice I agree, job security is outdated but that is why it baffles mean PhD programs are not focused on diversifying and establishing requirements for not being a professor. For example, a lot of programs require, not recommend students to be a TA to be in good standing.
Nobody Wants to Talk About: Despite the long term decline of academic job security. PhD program training remains the same: To produce more professors. Make it make sense.
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@GradStudn A prof of mine stopped obsessing over pubs; he asked, "Why marshal an ever-lengthening array of titles only so they could one day stand at attention at the foot of an obituary?"
@Ahaiss1 @GradStudn Which, when it results in you earning not even the equivalent of the minimum salary - literally the definition of the minimum amount of money you need to live - is completely unacceptable.
@MauMauHistorian @PhDVoice Of course, but these parameters financially benefit only the schools not the students. We are expected to work more than 40 hours, but many students are horribly underpaid relative to the price of living.
Nobody Wants to Talk About: My PhD stipend is considered financial aid, and not a salary but I am treated more like a worker not a student.
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I didn't know how to feel when my professor told me I was the first POC in her 28 years of education to get a Ph.D. Proud? Sad? Disappointed?
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