In this clip, grad students talk about how the pandemic increased the already overworking culture of graduate school. Even when people chose this pathway, the pandemic made it worse.
As grad students, we are very much conditioned to believe you literally always have to work, like every single hour of your day there is something you can be doing, and then, when we’re home, and it’s like, Well, I don’t have anything else to do, anyway, so I might work like 14 hours a day every single day.
