100 Reasons

▼
Showing posts with label Adulthood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adulthood. Show all posts
Monday, July 4, 2011

63. Your friends pass you by.

›
For graduate students, nothing drives home the fact that graduate school delays adulthood (see Reason 12 ) more clearly than observing frien...
80 comments:
Monday, April 11, 2011

54. “What do you do for a living?”

›
For most people, this is an easy and straightforward question to answer, but for graduate students it proves surprisingly tricky. When someo...
18 comments:
Monday, March 21, 2011

51. You are surrounded by undergraduates.

›
Most everyone who works in education experiences the strange phenomenon of growing older while students stay the same age. Graduate student...
62 comments:
Saturday, November 13, 2010

31. There are biological consequences.

›
It is never entirely your decision as to when you will marry or have children, but to the extent that it is, there are some important facts ...
26 comments:
Saturday, October 23, 2010

24. “You are still in school?”

›
As you age, your relatives and family friends will begin to marvel at the fact that you are still a student. After spending so much time in ...
38 comments:
Friday, October 8, 2010

19. These are the best years of your life.

›
Whether or not your young adulthood does in fact turn out to be the best part of your life by one measure or another, these probably are the...
24 comments:
Sunday, September 26, 2010

15. Marriage and family usually wait.

›
There are married graduate students, and there are graduate students with families, and the love and support offered by these loved ones is ...
43 comments:
Friday, September 17, 2010

12. Adulthood waits.

›
The Lewis Hine photograph of a boy studying at the top of the page captures at least two aspects of the graduate school experience. First, t...
50 comments:
Monday, September 6, 2010

10. There is a psychological cost.

›
Without question, some people are better suited for graduate school than others, and a good attitude goes a long way in making any challenge...
11 comments:

8. There are very few jobs.

›
After the massive post-war expansion of American higher education, academic departments became increasingly dependent on graduate-student la...
26 comments:

4. It takes a long time to finish.

›
For reasons that are not entirely clear, it is taking longer and longer for students to earn graduate degrees (or undergraduate degrees, for...
43 comments: