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I didn't want to retweet directly so as to inadvertently put this person on blast but wow, what a perfectly vicious take from a funded student who hasn't even started their PhD yet. Why would you alienate people like this?
I am now funded but did my first year completely unfunded and it blows my mind that someone would come in all hoity-toity high horse *before they've even begun*, questioning and dismissing peoples motivations, passions and interactions with application processes like this.
We all know the job market is a garbage-fire, but this "hot take" does absolutely nothing but demonstrate a high level of ignorance and immaturity. Bloody hell. I feel sorry for this person's future colleagues.
Final things - my closest friends and colleagues in this process are self-funded & I would defend their PhDs to the hilt. I've also heard rumours about other students from my funding body saying students (like me) shouldn't be able to get funding for their 2nd & 3rd years.
A PhD is isolating enough, why do some funded students feel the need to discriminate further? Opinions like this coming from positions of power are bad enough, now we have to deal with attacks from each other? (she says with deep irony having verbally gone in on someone else)
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