Cheer Up. Uh huh. There are some choice words I'd like to use to describe grad school. Guilt. Depression. Discontent. Exhaustion. Happiness as a grad student? Ephemeral. Illusory. Mythological. There is no carrot.
Wow, that's a little surreal. Either I haven't recovered from the experience as I should have, or that guy is unnaturally accepting of the misery that is grad school.