<p>^ Thanks boneh3ad for confirming my hypothesis. I want to do a Ph.D in computer science because I want to work in an industrial research lab on the latest applications of theory and I was wondering whether people do Ph.D.'s instead of getting jobs. Thanks for reaffirming that it isn’t true. I would hope to be among a group who wants to do what they are doing over a group who is forced to do what they are doing without any other options.</p>
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<p>Plenty of unfunded MS programs let anybody in.</p>