Beware survivorship bias in advice on science careers
This article hits close to home.  I was a very late-term dropout from a doctoral program in a hard science.  I had neither the good sense to quit early on, nor the mental fortitude to complete my dissertation and ended up wasting years of my life in the process.<p>Among my many regrets, I wish there had been a professor who could have been honest with me about my ability to succeed as well as the consequences of failure.  Unfortunately, by the very fact that they were professors, they had never experienced anything like the misery that I did.<p>I did miraculously salvage my science career, but any time I get the chance, I strongly discourage anyone from pursuing a graduate degree in my field.