I can&#x27;t understand why everyone doesn&#x27;t go to grad school. In grad school in a computationally focused biology lab, I&#x27;ll be able to come in every day and code on whatever projects I want (well, in my case all of the projects I want to work on are in my field) to in whatever language I want to. It&#x27;ll be open-source, on github, and be shared with other scientists through publications. It will contribute to advancememts in environmental and medical genomics (however small!), which are important and morally&#x2F;intellectually fulfilling fields.<p>Why would people ever choose to instead go write code for some corporation that will always be closed source, has to be be whatever your supervisor tells you, won&#x27;t even be owned by you, and may never see the light of day for the first 4-5 years out of college? Grad school seems more fulfilling, interesting, better for portfolio development, and you just happen to get a PhD out of it than most entry level coding positions.