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Yes, you can have a life in grad school

Yes, you can have a life in grad school

A guide to being an almost-close-to-normal twenty-something who also happens to be getting their PhD

April 21, 2026 | Julia R.

“But I’ll be thirty when I finish graduate school!” “Julia, would you rather be thirty with a PhD or without one?”  I have repeated this conversation many times in my head and to anyone who will listen. Before I decided to get my PhD in biology, I had heard so many horror stories about graduate […]