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graduate school is just a metaphor - by john d. zhang

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Many months ago at a house party in New York City, a friend I respect and admire asked me what I had gotten out of grad school. I stumbled through a series of clichés and then, hearing my own utter incoherence out loud, promised to write something that assembled my thoughts more clearly on the matter. She nodded and told me she looked forward to reading it. (Spoiler: while I don’t think anything that follows this sentence is particularly coherent, it is hopefully not as trite as whatever I mumbled that night.)

graduate school is just a metaphor john d. zhang Feb 28, 2022 74 2 7 Share Many months ago at a house party in New York City, a friend I respect and admire asked me what I had gotten out of grad school. I stumbled through a series of clichés and then, hearing my own utter incoherence out loud, promised to write something that assembled my thoughts more clearly on the matter. She nodded and told me she looked forward to reading it. (Spoiler: while I don’t think anything that follows this sentence is particularly coherent, it is hopefully not as trite as whatever I mumbled that night.) I don’t k

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