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Thinking of Going to Grad School?

Then you'll want to read this post, and the comments, on Crooked Timber:

It’s around the time of year when undergraduates start thinking about graduate school, so naturally it’s the time of year for overheated blog posts on why going to grad school is meant to be a Very Bad Idea. The latest of these is from Dean Dad, who wants to Stop the Cycle of Abuse, i.e. stop people going to grad school. The reasons given are all fairly standard factoids – it’s a huge opportunity cost, it takes forever, and the job market is awful. None of these are good reasons, and it would be an awful decision to not apply to graduate schools because of posts like these.

"Go to Grad School!" Crooked Timber, November 30, 2005

"So You Want to Go to Grad School?" by Thomas Benton, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 3, 2003
"Should I go to graduate school?" Easily Distracted (Timothy Burke)

December 1, 2005 10:15 AM Career