

To be a little more specific, schools take a cut (often called overhead) of awarded grant money to pay admin salaries among other things - sometimes in excess of 50%!
These rates have grown universally over time and the practice is obvs not popular amongst the actual researchers/PIs.
Probably too much of this resonates lol.
How did you afford 3 degrees?
Also, you mentioned you live at a different tempo than most people - if you meant literally tempo, are you faster or slower?