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"You say I'm cool, I'm no fool, but you wind up applying to grad school." Matt Groening, Life in Hell
Phil Agre's Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate School
Getting What You Came for : The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D. by Robert Peters
School signals that you are affordable, focused on learning rather than earning, and it makes it possible to get involved with a lot of the companies you're interested in as an intern. Quick tips from HFES
I doubt if anyone would claim to enjoy life at high altitudes -- enjoy, that is, in the ordinary sense of the word. There is a certain grim satisfaction to be derived from struggling upwards, however slowly; but the bulk of one's time is necessarily spent in the extreme squalor of a high camp, when even this solace is lacking. ... I used to try to console myself with the thought that a year ago I would have been thrilled by the very idea of taking part in our present adventure, a prospect that had then seemed like an impossible dream; but altitude has the same effect on the mind as upon the body, one's intellect becomes dull and unresponsive, and my only desire was to finish the wretched job and to get down to a more reasonable clime. -- Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air