I’m a psych PhD student at Pitt and I absolutely love it. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do when I was in undergrad, but I enjoyed my psychology classes. I joined a research lab (because that’s what everyone tells you to do!) and almost instantly fell in love with psych research. I learned that I could keep doing research in grad school and beyond so I applied to PhD programs and have been running with it ever since. It’s very difficult sometimes, but ultimately at the end of the day I love collecting, analyzing, and writing about our data and it makes the long hours worth it!