Graduate School is Supposed to be Harder ?

High school was much tougher for me than LSU and even tougher than my grad program. It varies from institution to institution, even instructor to instructor.

As to why, expectations vary from place to place. I also sought classes in my higher education that suited my strengths and interests with lighter workloads. Not something I'm proud of, but pretty typical.

I never went to Grad school, but I've heard people say it's easier because you pretty much teach yourself and you're on your own. That can make it harder, if you aren't focused I suppose. I guess it depends on what you're studying.

Masters degree classes are usually pretty easy. Smaller classes, professors spend more time going over stuff, and they're not worried about having to make sure a certain percentage passes the class, plus most folks in grad school are going for PhDs so the professors know they're also having to do research. I'm not sure what you're going for, but research and publications are what separate the wheat from the chafe in grad school.


My apologies for any run on or incomplete sentences, but I've been drinking tonight so I'm not overly concerned with proofreading at the moment.

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I think you're just really really smart

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Thank you.

I wish others would be as humble and forthcoming as you

Here's a crazy thought: you've been in school for a long time now. Maybe the fact that you've had so much schooling has prepared you for graduate school. You should know, especially in physics, basically all the fundamentals are the same. It's how they're applied and affected by various situations that it gets tricky. Already having an undergraduate degree, I'm sure you have a decent amount of practice applying the laws and fundamentals. In grad school, you're doing the same thing over again. Maybe more detail in derivations and principles and whatever else depending on the class, but it's still the same fundamentals and same process that you've been doing for years now. That's probably why it seems easier because you already have practice doing it.

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Since I was accepted into grad school, I thought it was going to be much more difficult material. I knew I was being defiant going into a higher degree level for a subject I struggled with, but I know myself better than an institution. However so far the information does not seem to be harder to learn.

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He is three days into grad school, boys. He must be a PHD candidate by now!

Dang homie this is the sixteenth thread you've started about Southern Grad School in 2 months.

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the sixteenth thread you've started about Southern Grad School in 2 months

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I do it because I feel that it is necessary.

After you get a job, are you going to continue to validate your education choices by pestering your coworkers with questions?