Grad School Is a Bad Idea, But So Are Many Things Worth Doing
Graduate school, especially in the humanities, has been receiving very bad press for a long time, but 2013 has already produced a bumper crop of essays about the Ph.D. process. Ron Rosenbaum's Slate essay "Should You Go to Grad School?" decided that…
Grad School Is a Bad Idea, But So Are Many Things Worth Doing Impact By Spencer Lenfield May 17, 2013 Graduate school, especially in the humanities , has been receiving very bad press for a long time, but 2013 has already produced a bumper crop of essays about the Ph.D. process. Ron Rosenbaum's Slate essay " Should You Go to Grad School? " decided that you shouldn't ("Please don't waste your life this way"); Rebecca Schuman's " Thesis Hatement ," a dispatch from a more recent victim of the institution (which also appeared in Slate ), directly analogized life on the academic job market to scene
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