re: #155 Scottish Dragon
The grad school stuff is true.
I saw someone run the numbers on a similar stipend and tuition cost for where I did my Ph.D.
The annual tax bill would go from about $2.3k to roughly $8.3k on the same ~$30k actual salary in my paycheck. And that $30k is on the upper end of grad student stipends because hahahahahahah CA housing prices.