Title says it all. It seems if you say “I’m going to grad school” you hear “my condolences” or people questioning why you would do that in the first place. But for those getting their doctorate, not the same response. Aren’t they going through way more schooling, spending way more money, and generally kissing their life goodbye?
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Grad school is a long, hard slog. Even for a Ph.D. student, who (in my field) gets a stipend and has tuition covered by the instituition, the student isn’t making a lot of money.
Getting a Ph.D. (or an M.D.) means finishing that struggle and getting, at the very least, a shiny new title. It usually also means making more money.
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