Should I Go to Grad School?: 41 Answers to An Impossible Question

By: Jessica Loudis and Bosko Blagojevic and John Arthur Peetz and Allison Rodman

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Synopsis: The decision to attend graduate school is easy for future doctors and lawyers: they must have a professional degree to get started. But for young creative workers, aspiring artists, and intellectuals, grad school is an existential fork in the road. An M.F.A. or a humanities Ph.D. can give you time to invest in studying something you love among like-minded intellectuals and qualify you to teach a new generation of students; but it can also uproot you geographically, expose you to backstabbing competitors, and saddle you with debt. Given the current job market, is grad school really worth it-financially, professionally, and emotionally?In Should I Go to Grad School?, a wide range of people who lead intellectually and creatively interesting lives-sculptors and philosophers, activists and poets, a cocktail designer and a movie star-tell their own stories about choosing to go to grad school-or steering clear-and what that decision has meant in their lives. They give us an inside look at what grad school today is really like, and share the wisdom they wish they could have had going in. They reflect on their divergent paths to success, and muse about the path not taken. With contributors including David Orr, James Franco, Simon Critchley, Terry Castle, Sheila Heti, and many more, Should I Go to Grad School? is a must read for anyone seriously considering that titular question.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 256 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781620405994
Related ISBNs:: 9781620405987
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Addition:: 03/06/21
Copyrighted By:: Jessica Loudis, Bosko Blagojevic, John Arthur Peetz, Allison Rodman
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Self-Help, Business and Finance, Education
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Jessica Loudis
Edited by:: Bosko Blagojevic
Edited by:: John Arthur Peetz
Edited by:: Allison Rodman