• The thing about grad school is that you get stretched so thin that you can’t do your best at anything.
• The thing about grad school is you are too tired too appreciate how amazing it is to be paid to learn.
• The thing about grad school is that every day is a question of picking which people to let down today.
• The thing about grad school is that you don’t have the power to arrange your schedule in the most effective way
• The thing about grad school is that you can’t read google calendar on the weekly view because there are too many things each day.
• The thing about grad school is you know you are not operating at your full potential when you make mistakes from being over burdened
• The thing about grad school is that everyone wants the tasks they assign to you to be your number 1 priority, but it is impossible to have 5+ different number 1 priorities.
• The thing about grad school is you are too busy to pause to think about aspects of your work you enjoy.
• The thing about grad school is everyone says they will not give you a task until they think you are able to do it, but somehow you always end up working beyond your skill level.
• The thing about grad school is you can still get student discounts while also being an instructor of students.
• The thing about grad school is you care too much about all of the things you under-preform at.
• The thing about grad school is watching what happens when a bunch of high achieving perfectionists get pushed to their limits
• The thing about grad school is everyone tells you grades don’t matter but keeping the funding is dependent on your GPA.
• The thing about grad school is you start to get academic spam mail for bogus conferences.
• The thing about grad school is you become an author on a paper you don’t even like.
• The thing about grad school is you identify useful skills you could have acquired in undergrad if only you had known. And now you have no time to learn them.
• The thing about grad school is you don’t have time to employ the good study skills that helped get you into grad school.
• The thing about grad school is to survive you have to be more accepting of your mistakes.
• The thing about grad school is not being able to enjoy things that past-you would have been so excited to do.
• The thing about grad school is that every day is a roller-coaster of inching towards productivity and failures.
• The thing about grad school is wondering whether you are coping worse than others.
• The thing about grad school is wanting to sleep for a year.
• The thing about grad school is lack of privacy for emotional breakdowns in the lab.
• The thing about grad school is it’s hard to find a tutor to help when the class content you don’t understand is so specialized.
• The thing about grad school is you feel invested in helping your undergraduate students and sacrifice sleep to schedule more office hour meetings.
• The thing about grad school is moving to a new place and only knowing people in your cohort.
• The thing about grad school is doing the math estimates of when would be best to have a baby.
• The thing about grad school is fear of letting down your psychotherapy clients
• The thing about grad school is wanting to stay despite the problems.

Edit March 11th, 2015: Where was this post linked that is causing me to get so much traffic to this page? WordPress says somewhere on Facebook but won’t tell me the exact link. Where are you coming from?