100 Reasons

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Showing posts with label Difficulty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Difficulty. Show all posts
Monday, April 2, 2012

81. Comprehensive exams.

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American doctoral programs are divided into three major components: courses, comprehensive or general exams ("comps" or "gene...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

80. “When will you finish?”

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Of all of the awkward questions that you are asked in graduate school, this one is the cruelest. It is also the one that you are asked more...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

79. The tyranny of procrastination.

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The problem of procrastination in graduate school is, in part, a problem of perception. When you could be working anytime and all the time (...
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Monday, October 17, 2011

70. It is unforgiving.

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There are a few exceptional individuals for whom graduate school is a breeze, but the vast majority of grad students are regular people. In ...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

60. The tyranny of the dissertation.

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The image of Sisyphus eternally moving a great weight uphill has already appeared in Reason 9 , and a similar image accompanies Reason 50 . ...
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Monday, May 2, 2011

57. Rejection is routine.

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No one likes rejection, but everyone encounters it. Graduate students encounter it frequently. You often feel the sting of rejection before ...
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Monday, February 21, 2011

47. It requires tremendous self-discipline.

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Graduate school is not like college. Perhaps so many people go to graduate school because they are mistakenly under the impression that it i...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

46. You may not finish.

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Presumably, very few people start graduate school with the intention of dropping out, but graduate school attrition rates are depressingly h...
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Thursday, November 4, 2010

28. Writing is hard.

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In graduate school, you will be immersing yourself in a life of reading and writing, neither of which will be fun. For most people, writing ...
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Monday, September 6, 2010

9. It is very, very hard.

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Notwithstanding the fact that intellectual expectations are falling, graduate school is still very difficult. In many graduate programs, hal...
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