100 Reasons

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Monday, January 21, 2013

88. You are not paid for what you write.

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You could argue that professors are paid to write, because they’re required to produce publications as a condition of their employment. But ...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

87. The financial rewards are decreasing.

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No one working in academe will be surprised to learn that among the most common search-engine queries bringing readers to this blog are quer...
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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, July 16, 2012

85. It is not a ticket to the upper middle class.

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Even among the college-educated, there is a tendency to envision the life of a professor as one that includes tweed jackets with leather e...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

84. The politics are vicious.

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 “Academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so low.” Endlessly repeated, the ironic expression has become a dictum on college...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

83. It narrows your options.

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We have become so comfortable with the idea that more education leads to more opportunity that it can be hard to accept the fact that there ...
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Monday, April 16, 2012

82. Teaching is moving online.

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No matter what ambitions people may have when they enter graduate school, they are likely to find themselves looking for academic teaching p...
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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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