Too many topics, too little time

Graduate School Culture. And if I waved a magic wand and fixed all those problems, that would leave… oh, most of the people I went to school with. Some of them quit partway through, feeling like failures; some are still at it; some… [Invisible Adjunct]
avoid it if you can, get a job while you are going to grad school, get someone else to pay, break the mold, etc. but read the post over on invisible adjunct nonethless, the comments are good also.