If I were* smarter
When using be in an if clause for an unreal conditional sentence, always conjugate it as were, no matter what the subject is. Even if the subject is first-person singular (I) or third-person singular (he, she, or it), still use were with an if clause in unreal conditional sentences.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/conditional-sentences-was-instead-of-were/
TIL: This is an artefact of my regional dialect. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-variation-and-change/article/abs/new-role-for-an-ancient-variable-in-appalachia-paradigm-leveling-and-standardization-in-west-virginia/3F069F1A76FBFFB75566131FB9D955C9 Apparently, the leveled was is a thing.
And a lot of debt, usually. Don’t forget that one.
If you have to pay to get a PhD then you were fleeced and probably deserve to lose that money
pls no bully yanks
yanks are fren not food
I don’t know, there are lots of PhD programs in the U.S. where you’re a research assistant, which basically means your tuition is free and you’re paid a stipend for the research. In my experience, I’ve only met US PhD students who were fully funded.
From what I’ve heard, PhD positions in the US are funded in STEM fields, but not in the arts and social sciences. But I could be wrong.