Been there, felt that pressure. During my PhD at the University of Texas, I hit the same dead end where every word felt wrong and every page looked worse than the last. I started with a private tutor, some retired MIT guy who didn’t sugarcoat anything. He pushed me so hard I thought I’d quit. But months later, I realized he taught me how to think in arguments, not just how to format them. When I eventually tried an online editing service, the paper came back perfect on the surface but weirdly soulless, like someone had erased my fingerprints. It looked professional, sure, but it didn’t sound like me at all. I think that’s the tradeoff — editors make it cleaner, faster, easier, but tutors make you better. I also messed around with top essay writing services when deadlines got brutal, and honestly, they saved me once or twice. For a side hustle perspective, I even met a few business plan writers for cheap who edit dissertations at night — they know structure like it’s second nature. And when I spoke at the “College and Rodeo: Youth Panel on Balancing Education, Barrel Racing, and Creative Ways to Earn[/url” in Austin, almost everyone said the same thing — what really matters isn’t perfection, it’s keeping your brain in the fight. That’s what mentorship gives you. An editor might polish your work, but a tutor keeps you from falling apart.