Originally Posted by Tallulah
Grad school is not the sort of debt you should take on without a plan to use it and get worth from it.

I agree that one should be cautious about debt, but when I went to grad school about 20 years ago in one of the natural sciences, teaching and research assistantships were enough to support a single person.

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." - George Orwell