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I found undergrad to be more enjoyable than grad school, but I did enjoy many things about my postgrad course. Academically, I worked harder in undergrad and I was disappointed in my performance and dissertation. I feel like the department I was in needed to make some other changes to the programme, which they may have done since I left. But a one year MSc is quite different to what a lot of the other people above have experienced. I did meet some great people (including future husband) and got to live in one of my favourite cities for a year. Also after 4 years of Smith, I got some valuable experience of learning to socialise with guys and even become friends with some of them. As life experiences go, it was a good one. Career-wise, what I'm doing now has absolutely no relation to my degree and it's like I never went at all. I probably need to work on that.

I've heard so many stories about PhDs from hell that I am not considering one any time soon, mainly because there's nothing I'm passionate enough about to spend 4 years slaving over it. Though I do enjoy research, sometimes. ;)