The Graduate Grind: A Critical Look at Graduate Education

Abandonment, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, bitterness, breaking point, burnout, collapse, danger, death, desperation, discouragement, divorce, exhaustion, frustration, grind, hardships, hazing, hurdles, ignorance, impossible dream, isolation, killing the spirit, leaving, loneliness, murder, neglect, peril, ridicule, ritual, self-protection, sexual harassment, shock, snobbery, strain, strangulation, stress, suffering, suicide, survival of the fittest, trauma, and violence.