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Out of curiosity  - why do all of these SLP programs keep using Facebook in 2019?
Are you guys just creatures of habit and/or don't know a better way?? Reading all of the admit results where people are STILL asking, "FACEBOOK GROUP?? FACEBOOK GROUP CREATE YET??" breaks my heart.
There are vastly superior tools to Facebook that accomplish the goal of staying connected to your cohort, without dragging your entire past and family and ex-lovers and god knows who else into your professional world.
Why not Discord? Or GroupMe? Or almost anything else?
Break the cycle! This isn't 2005, 2010, or even 2015. It'll be 2020 next year - stop making Facebook groups like you're little old ladies and use modern collaboration tools!

One. Day. At. A. Time.

Why are so many graduate students insufferable? I feel it is exacerbated in my case because I am in a terminal Master's program, rather than a Ph.D. program, but I do not know. Maybe it's just par for the course in academia.

Is it just the combination of being away from friends and family, stress from high expectations, limited funds, limited time, limited real world experience, etc.?

All of these seem to make most graduate students some of the most maladjusted people with whom I have ever interacted. By and large, they are just a different breed of people than I ever experienced in my years working in the real world. There is a higher prevalence of narcissism, arrogance, and selfishness than I ever encountered at my jobs. It's as though many of these people are still in middle school.

The reason I mention all of this is that I thought graduate school would be hard, but not for the reasons it actually is hard. The coursework is engaging and intuitive. The professors are insightful, fair, and fun to be around. Fifty percent of my peers, though, are petulant children.

If anything, I feel like the primary skill learned in graduate school is "how to think and produce quality work in spite of whomever is around you or in a group with you."

Why are so many graduate students insufferable? I feel it is exacerbated in my case because I am in a terminal Master's program, rather than a Ph.D. program, but I do not know. Maybe it's just par for the course in academia.

Is it just the combination of being away from friends and family, stress from high expectations, limited funds, limited time, limited real world experience, etc.?

All of these seem to make most graduate students some of the most maladjusted people with whom I have ever interacted. By and large, they are just a different breed of people than I ever experienced in my years working in the real world. There is a higher prevalence of narcissism, arrogance, and selfishness than I ever encountered at my jobs. It's as though many of these people are still in middle school.

The reason I mention all of this is that I thought graduate school would be hard, but not for the reasons it actually is hard. The coursework is engaging and intuitive. The professors are insightful, fair, and fun to be around. Fifty percent of my peers, though, are petulant children.

If anything, I feel like the primary skill learned in graduate school is "how to think and produce quality work in spite of whomever is around you or in a group with you."

Why are so many graduate students insufferable? I feel it is exacerbated in my case because I am in a terminal Master's program, rather than a Ph.D. program, but I do not know. Maybe it's just par for the course in academia.

Is it just the combination of being away from friends and family, stress from high expectations, limited funds, limited time, limited real world experience, etc.?

All of these seem to make most graduate students some of the most maladjusted people with whom I have ever interacted. By and large, they are just a different breed of people than I ever experienced in my years working in the real world. There is a higher prevalence of narcissism, arrogance, and selfishness than I ever encountered at my jobs. It's as though many of these people are still in middle school.

The reason I mention all of this is that I thought graduate school would be hard, but not for the reasons it actually is hard. The coursework is engaging and intuitive. The professors are insightful, fair, and fun to be around. Fifty percent of my peers, though, are petulant children.

If anything, I feel like the primary skill learned in graduate school is "how to think and produce quality work in spite of whomever is around you or in a group with you."

Why are so many graduate students insufferable? I feel it is exacerbated in my case because I am in a terminal Master's program, rather than a Ph.D. program, but I do not know. Maybe it's just par for the course in academia.

Is it just the combination of being away from friends and family, stress from high expectations, limited funds, limited time, limited real world experience, etc.?

All of these seem to make most graduate students some of the most maladjusted people with whom I have ever interacted. By and large, they are just a different breed of people than I ever experienced in my years working in the real world. There is a higher prevalence of narcissism, arrogance, and selfishness than I ever encountered at my jobs. It's as though many of these people are still in middle school.

The reason I mention all of this is that I thought graduate school would be hard, but not for the reasons it actually is hard. The coursework is engaging and intuitive. The professors are insightful, fair, and fun to be around. Fifty percent of my peers, though, are petulant children.

If anything, I feel like the primary skill learned in graduate school is "how to think and produce quality work in spite of whomever is around you or in a group with you."

Why are so many graduate students insufferable? I feel it is exacerbated in my case because I am in a terminal Master's program, rather than a Ph.D. program, but I do not know. Maybe it's just par for the course in academia.

Is it just the combination of being away from friends and family, stress from high expectations, limited funds, limited time, limited real world experience, etc.?

All of these seem to make most graduate students some of the most maladjusted people with whom I have ever interacted. By and large, they are just a different breed of people than I ever experienced in my years working in the real world. There is a higher prevalence of narcissism, arrogance, and selfishness than I ever encountered at my jobs. It's as though many of these people are still in middle school.

The reason I mention all of this is that I thought graduate school would be hard, but not for the reasons it actually is hard. The coursework is engaging and intuitive. The professors are insightful, fair, and fun to be around. Fifty percent of my peers, though, are petulant children.

If anything, I feel like the primary skill learned in graduate school is "how to think and produce quality work in spite of whomever is around you or in a group with you."

Why are so many graduate students insufferable? I feel it is exacerbated in my case because I am in a terminal Master's program, rather than a Ph.D. program, but I do not know. Maybe it's just par for the course in academia.

Is it just the combination of being away from friends and family, stress from high expectations, limited funds, limited time, limited real world experience, etc.?

All of these seem to make most graduate students some of the most maladjusted people with whom I have ever interacted. By and large, they are just a different breed of people than I ever experienced in my years working in the real world. There is a higher prevalence of narcissism, arrogance, and selfishness than I ever encountered at my jobs. It's as though many of these people are still in middle school.

The reason I mention all of this is that I thought graduate school would be hard, but not for the reasons it actually is hard. The coursework is engaging and intuitive. The professors are insightful, fair, and fun to be around. Fifty percent of my peers, though, are petulant children.

If anything, I feel like the primary skill learned in graduate school is "how to think and produce quality work in spite of whomever is around you or in a group with you."

Why are so many graduate students insufferable? I feel it is exacerbated in my case because I am in a terminal Master's program, rather than a Ph.D. program, but I do not know. Maybe it's just par for the course in academia.

Is it just the combination of being away from friends and family, stress from high expectations, limited funds, limited time, limited real world experience, etc.?

All of these seem to make most graduate students some of the most maladjusted people with whom I have ever interacted. By and large, they are just a different breed of people than I ever experienced in my years working in the real world. There is a higher prevalence of narcissism, arrogance, and selfishness than I ever encountered at my jobs. It's as though many of these people are still in middle school.

The reason I mention all of this is that I thought graduate school would be hard, but not for the reasons it actually is hard. The coursework is engaging and intuitive. The professors are insightful, fair, and fun to be around. Fifty percent of my peers, though, are petulant children.

If anything, I feel like the primary skill learned in graduate school is "how to think and produce quality work in spite of whomever is around you or in a group with you."

Consider the age difference and their experiences between undergrad and grad (if they took time off).

For most part, hold onto yourself and remain friendly and polite. You want your colleagues to remember you years from now as "that person was ALWAYS so nice!" Graduate school does require a lot of patience. And so does dealing with undergrads when you become a professor (if that is your path). If there are bloodbaths going on in your seminar, that's your professor's fault for not being an effective teacher by teaching civility in the classroom. My professors try to work hard at encouraging us to say positive things about our readings no matter how much they annoy us. The atmosphere can change drastically with positive, civil attitude among graduate students.

Set an example if you care that much.

Why are so many graduate students insufferable? I feel it is exacerbated in my case because I am in a terminal Master's program, rather than a Ph.D. program, but I do not know. Maybe it's just par for the course in academia.

Is it just the combination of being away from friends and family, stress from high expectations, limited funds, limited time, limited real world experience, etc.?

All of these seem to make most graduate students some of the most maladjusted people with whom I have ever interacted. By and large, they are just a different breed of people than I ever experienced in my years working in the real world. There is a higher prevalence of narcissism, arrogance, and selfishness than I ever encountered at my jobs. It's as though many of these people are still in middle school.

The reason I mention all of this is that I thought graduate school would be hard, but not for the reasons it actually is hard. The coursework is engaging and intuitive. The professors are insightful, fair, and fun to be around. Fifty percent of my peers, though, are petulant children.

If anything, I feel like the primary skill learned in graduate school is "how to think and produce quality work in spite of whomever is around you or in a group with you."

One. Day. At. A. Time.

One. Day. At. A. Time.

One. Day. At. A. Time.

One. Day. At. A. Time.

One. Day. At. A. Time.

One. Day. At. A. Time.

One. Day. At. A. Time.

The way I see it is that it is easier to cut to the core of another person based on a dozen bullet points because we inherently see ourselves as more complicated than we actually are and others as more simple than they actually are.