100 Reasons

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Monday, September 19, 2011

68. It is stressful.

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Graduate school is stressful. Sometimes it is terribly stressful. Stress is virtually unavoidable in any kind of work, but there is a pecul...
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Monday, September 5, 2011

67. There is a star system.

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Academe is more like professional sports than most academics would like to admit, especially when it comes to money (yes, money). Just as th...
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Monday, August 15, 2011

66. “Why are you studying that?”

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When dealing with the “What are you going to do with that?” question, you at least know in your own mind what you hope to do, even if that i...
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Monday, August 1, 2011

65. Teaching is less and less rewarding.

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Anyone who has been at the back of a college lecture hall recently is familiar with the sight of row upon row of glowing screens. Some stude...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

64. Smugness.

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Academe takes itself and its hierarchies very seriously, which is why where you go to school matters so much to the trajectory of an academi...
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Monday, July 4, 2011

63. Your friends pass you by.

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For graduate students, nothing drives home the fact that graduate school delays adulthood (see Reason 12 ) more clearly than observing frien...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

62. You have no free time.

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To an American with only two weeks of vacation per year, the idea that a graduate student has no free time must seem absurd. Not only do gra...
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Monday, June 6, 2011

61. Unstructured time.

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At least since the Industrial Revolution, most every institution of human life has been organized according to a schedule, because there is ...
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