为什么读博士这么惨还有人愿意读博士呢？ 第1页

为什么大城市房价那么高还那么多人往哪里跑？

为什么国考难么难考还那么多人去考？

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其实很多人选择读博是因为有读书惯性，这点在中国尤其明显。一个本科即将毕业，人生前二十年只会读书的人，如果问他接下来的路怎么走，不出意外的话大概率会选择去读研，读完研以后有有一部分人会顺着这个惯性下去继续读博，毕竟二十年的发力，留下来的惯性不是一次急停就能停住的。

一个刚刚毕业的年轻人，在面对社会这个大熔炉的时候内心是迷茫和不安的，这个时候学校和导师一伸出橄榄枝，基本上都会跟着过去了，现在又多出来一大批直博团体，在面对这种诱惑的时候可以反惯性思考的时间实在是太少了，而且也太难拒绝了，基本上都会被那二十多年精心打磨的动力源一波带进博士圈，他们去读博的时候可能还怀揣着及其崇高的理想，这并不是什么坏事，只是可惜他们还没有摸透这个世界金钱至上的丑陋但又正确的潜规则，而在这个规则下读博其实是非常不经济的。有的博士发现了这一点，开始劝退了，有的没发现（或者假装没发现），继续熬下去，于是就有了部分那么“惨”的博士。你说他们真的惨吗？最惨的博也比大部分人好多了，但是和那些早早洞悉规则，一切效率至上的人相比，在经济上确实显得比较不值了，或许他们的理想也能当饭吃吧！

个人觉得，读博是我这一生最好的出路了。

因为我读了十年研究生，可能很多人依然会觉得我很失败吧。

But，that is their opinion, I have my undone business to finish.

但我觉得，这是我能做的，最好的方式了。

26岁第一次读化学博士，发现工作不好找，于是放弃，拿了人生第二个硕士。因为之前就在国内拿了第一个化学的硕士。

后来，转了CS硕士，拿了第三个硕士。

现在在读计算机博士, 开题已经过了。估计也快能毕业了。

今年赶上疫情，在家待了一整年，真的是难熬呀！！！

2020 年，疫情改变了你什么？

标题：My inspirational journey to study in the US and then summer intern at Google

Life has not been easy for me, for my entire 33 years old journey. But I see hope and perseverance will eventually pay off!

Recently adversity and achievements at the same time: my mom (in an age of 80) passed away on 11.30.2019 and I presented my PhD proposal defense on 12.04.2019 and did team match with Google for the summer 2020 intern. Now, both of my parents were long gone. I passed the defense and got an offer for that match.

For those who read Chinese, you may already know this, as I shared my last post here: https://leetcode.com/discuss/career/454960/how-i-train-myself-for-google-internship-interview. Lots of you commented with GREAT words. I am deeply appreciated for that. After consideration, I thought that sharing my journey would be a worthwhile thing to do for the border community, as you can see from lots of great comments in that post.

For example, in this comment:

Yes, I want to be a developer, for really long. And thanks for your comment!

I am from a very rural area in China and I was/am in danger of dropping out of school a lot of times. Fortunately, with so many so loved help from my family, friends and outside, I got the opportunity to get going my study. I am the youngest of seven and my second-to-last brother is 11 years older than me. My father passed away when I was only two and my parents had me when my mom was 48. Life was and is not easy for my family as we are trying just to survive.

I was always top 3 in my class, most of the time, my same grade, for my entire study career. I was the only one in my class who went to a key university. As I knew from a very young age, the only way for me and my family to get out of poverty and difficulty is through study, very hard study.

My undergraduate degree was Polymer Material and Engineering. I went ahead to have my first MS degree in China under Computational Chemistry. Then when I was at the age of 26, I decided to study abroad, namely, the USA. I was trying to do my PhD in Computational Chemistry but I figured out even with the PhD, I could not find a job. Then I was wondering about what I could do. I eventually opted to jump into the CS train and applied for the CS PhD program. However, I was only considered in the MS program. I was happy but worried, since I did not have enough money for the tuition, as I had to pay in-state tuition. As I had burned so many hours in Chemistry and also CS undergraduate courses. Also, the reason I could just pay the in-state tuition was that I found a TA job from the CS department. Thanks to a lot of my friends, they lent money to me when I needed them the most.

I know the business is undone yet, since I will study even harder to get a full time in the near future. I may need refers from you, my fellow LeetCoders.

I gained so much support from everywhere along the journey and that is exactly why I wanted to share my story with you. As I am thinking this as a way for me to pay back to the society. Of course when I have more in my hands, I will definitely do more. But as of now, what about sharing this with you!

Again, if you are interested in the learning side, you can check my Quora answers here: https://qr.ae/TWCOLK and https://qr.ae/TWCUlr. and also if you are Chinese readers, I would kindly ask you to read here:

Happy coding and thanks very much for reading my unconventional story!

文章都是我用蹩脚的英文写的，读起来应该不会很难，我就不翻译过来了。

其实很感动的是看下面的评论：

我其实看了这些评论，非常感动，特别是这一句：

Life is a marathon and you're winning at it ! Thanks for sharing and all the best for your future !!

我的经历也可以在这里看到：

别人觉得怎么样，其实我觉得不是很重要，因为我的人生，还得我自己去走。

这么些年，认识了很多朋友和经历了很多，这些，也只有坚持才能体会到吧。

贴一下之前的感悟：

这一路，不容易。

这一生，也感恩。

因为太多人，太多事，让我磕磕绊绊。

但也是因为太多人，太多事，帮助我良多。

我会继续坚持。

感恩。