This thread, tho 
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I've never been and never intend to be a grad student, so I don't really know the nature of the leverage in that relationship... but I guess I've not known many people to make valiant attempts to enjoy it, at least at any real risk to their progression up the (competitive) chain?
As far as I can tell, if "number of panic attacks" and "duration of general malaise" are decent indicators, getting into grad school and getting a book deal are two of the worst things that can happen to People Who Are Not David Deutsch. 
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I only accept graduate students who already want to do the type of research we do in my lab. And the best predictor of that is that they started doing such research even before they applied to work with me. As far as I can tell, I have a pretty happy lab.
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But of course, there are many students who start a PhD without knowing what it's all about, for the prestige. And there are advisors who accept such students. Unfortunately.
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