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From: asch@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Andreas Schoter)
Subject: Re: Advice to students thinking of a PhD in AI
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 09:35:06 GMT
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william@beirut.berkeley.edu (Andy Grosso) writes:
>Sad and disillusioning as it may seem, nobody goes into a PhD
>program *purely* out of a love of knowledge. And most of those that
>make it through expect a reward for doing so.

Well; I reckon I did my PhD purely out of a love of knowledge.  If my
main concern was getting a good job I'd have been best advised to stop
my education after my first degree and get a job and industrial
experience.  I'll never make back the income that I've lost through
the extra years of study that I've put in.  Here in the UK that's an
accepted fact, and (almost) nobody does a PhD because of the job
prospects...

Andreas


