100 Reasons

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Showing posts with label Alienation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alienation. Show all posts
Monday, September 21, 2015

95. Academics are unhappy.

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You know that today's graduate students are unhappy when the Wall Street Journal can refer (and not entirely facetiously) to the world...
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Monday, January 13, 2014

92. There is a social cost.

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As you grow older, you begin to appreciate the value and rarity of genuine friendships. Graduate school is hard on friendships, and so is th...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

90. Virtually no one cares about what you are doing.

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In graduate school, you often feel alone because you often are alone, but also because no one cares about what you're doing. You spend ...
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Monday, September 10, 2012

86. It is a state of being.

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Graduate school is not school in any sense that you have experienced school before (see Reason 47 ). Nor is it a job, although a job is ofte...
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Monday, October 3, 2011

69. It is lonely.

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In graduate school, you spend a great deal of time alone. Most academic work is the product of isolation. Studying, research, and writing ...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

54. “What do you do for a living?”

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

51. You are surrounded by undergraduates.

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Most everyone who works in education experiences the strange phenomenon of growing older while students stay the same age. Graduate student...
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Monday, March 14, 2011

50. You are surrounded by graduate students.

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A graduate student in his first year of a PhD program was disappointed that his classmates scattered to the four winds as soon as their unbe...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

43. Attitudes about graduate school are changing.

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The Economist recently noted that “whining PhD students are nothing new,” and that is certainly true. Graduate students have been unhappy w...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

37. The university does not exist for your sake.

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While the modern university increasingly exists for the sake of those that it employs (see Reason 32 ), it still does a good job of creating...
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Monday, December 6, 2010

36. “So what are you going to do with that?”

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Once your listener has gotten over the initial perplexity caused by your admission that you are a graduate student (see Reasons 24 and 30 )...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

30. You occupy a strange place in the world.

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Graduate students not only occupy a strange place in the university (see Reason 10 ), they occupy a strange place in the world. Though it is...
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Saturday, October 23, 2010

24. “You are still in school?”

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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 ...
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