"Dear brilliant students: Please consider not doing a PhD."

raneck
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:24:36 +0000

Seconded on the pity-partying. This just sounds like someone who jumped head first into the shallow end without looking, and now assumes that everyone else is as shortsighted as he was (after all, he was brilliant!). While the “you should really think about this first” message is important, it could be delivered without the hysterics.