Gradschool - Rhea

The one word answer to this question (as Shakespeare himself would have said) is - NO! And a two word answer would be It depends.

As a current graduate student I am speaking to you reader from the 'other side'. Before you young'uns getting out of undergrads take the plunge you should know a few facts of life in grad school.

First you won't be playing with cool looking machines like this -

If your laboratory sessions during your junior/senior years has taught you anything, then you should know that these things cost money, real money. So you won't doing stuff with it untill you have undergone extensive training, which saps all your enthusiasm (and the will to live).