
{"id":2997,"date":"2019-06-26T10:53:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T10:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/i-chose-to-stay-in-graduate-school-for-the-wrong-reasons\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T06:32:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T06:32:59","slug":"i-chose-to-stay-in-graduate-school-for-the-wrong-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/i-chose-to-stay-in-graduate-school-for-the-wrong-reasons","title":{"rendered":"I chose to stay in graduate school for the wrong reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I have a lifelong love affair with math and science.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Given my family, my parents took for granted that I would excel in those areas. And excel I did.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">At the end of college, I had no practical ideas about what to do with my life. I knew I was good at school. I knew I liked science. But I was afraid. Afraid to make a choice that my parents wouldn\u2019t approve of. Afraid that I would be judged. So, I found my way to a PhD program.\u00a0\u201c<b>A PhD,\u201d I thought, \u201cwhy not! That should give me purpose for the next few years.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">The first two years of my program were like college. Days consisted of classes, including some with medical students. Intense, isolating at times, but more of what I expected. I read, I studied, I learned.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">After the first two years, I started my thesis work in a laboratory. I chose to study serotonin receptors. The biological basis of behavior and mental illness has always fascinated me.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">As I dove into working in a laboratory full time, I thrived on the \u201cscience\u201d part\u200a\u2014\u200awhat is going on in the brain? How can we prove it? I loved the rigor that came with those discussions. I loved the planning and the cautious optimism that our hypothesis would prove true.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">But the reality of academic science was different than I expected. My life involved repeating the exact same experiment over and over, for months. A sort of scientific Groundhog Day.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I felt frustrated and unhappy. But I didn\u2019t talk about it.\u00a0<b>I assumed I wasn\u2019t as tough as everyone else around me.\u00a0That my feelings were wrong.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I told myself that quitting was the worst possible choice, impractical. But in any list of pros and cons I made, the only pros were: get those 3 letters after my name and make my parents proud.\u00a0<b>My heart wasn\u2019t in it. But I was too scared to make the choice that I knew was right for me.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I kept at it, in abject misery, for another 3 years or so until I completed the program and received my degree.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">After grad school, I began working in another, related industry. It was fast paced and challenging. I loved it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">But the job didn\u2019t require a PhD; it took me awhile to realize. I could have made this choice years ago.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I couldn\u2019t believe that I could have chosen to be happy. That my feelings and actions could be aligned.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">It was only then that I understood that\u00a0<b>I chose to stay in graduate school for the wrong reasons<\/b>. I spent 3 years of my life headed down a path that didn\u2019t\u00a0<i>feel<\/i>\u00a0right to me. So that I could\u00a0<i>look<\/i>\u00a0right to other people.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">As a type A high-achiever, I thought there was never, ever, any excuse to quit something that you started. I have since realized how much I worried about other people\u2019s perceptions of me if I did choose to quit.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Sometimes, it is braver to quit than it is to stay.\u00a0I was not brave enough to make that choice.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">To anyone gritting their teeth through something. To people who feel trapped. To people who are confusing what they\u00a0WANT\u00a0to do with what they\u00a0SHOULD\u00a0do.<b> <\/b>My advice is this:\u00a0<b>you know what your heart is telling you to do. You\u00a0<i>know<\/i>\u00a0it. You are just scared. You are staying for the wrong reasons.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Make sure the course that you have set brings you closer to the goals that you want for yourself &#8211; not the ones that you think others want for you. And if you think the course you are on is not true to your own goals or happiness,\u00a0<b>be brave and make a change.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Dr. Deb Knobelman (<\/i><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/debknobelman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@debknobelman<\/a>)<\/em><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><i> is a PhD and a neuroscientist by training. This story was published on September 1, 2018, on Dr. Knobelman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debknobelman.com\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">blog<\/a> (available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debknobelman.com\/single-post\/2018\/09\/01\/You-Know-What-You-Need-To-Do-Youre-Just-Scared\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">here<\/a>), and has been republished with her permission.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a lifelong love affair with math and science. Given my family, my parents took for granted that I would excel in those areas. And excel I did. At the end of college, I had no practical ideas about what to do with my life. I knew I was good at school. 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