Most contemporary art curators of a certain age — those
who went to graduate school before curatorial programs became prominent — were trained as art historians.
I have yet to graduate from college but I'll most likely be
going to graduate school right after, so any near - future income (if any) will be very minimal.
But my career trajectory took a turn during the last semester of my undergraduate education, when my lab adviser encouraged me to
consider going to graduate school for a Ph.D..
I had
gone to graduate school with the hope of pursuing a career in academia, but by the time I got my degree, that dream seemed far from reality.
When I decided to
go to graduate school for library science, it was because I realized that the library is the place where I feel most alive.
I rolled into the parking lot of a local specialty grocery store where I was meeting an old friend who
went to graduate school in Ann Arbor but who now lives in San Francisco, where he is a psychiatrist.
In the worst case, you could be forced to drop out of college to take a job to pay your debt, or to take a job right after graduation instead
of going to graduate school — both of which are likely to be bad financial decisions in the long run.
I
then went to graduate school for architecture, but found too little time for questions of social - architectural integrity and experimental approaches to building, so I dropped out of the program after the first year.
By this I mean that a self growing system, a bit like the economy, grew, where assistant professors became professors and needed graduate students, affluence allowed more students to
go to graduate school instead of facing the real world, even though academy was not a dedication but just work, in a growing spiral.
After all, as Weissmann pointed out, a lot of
people went to graduate school based on the reasonable assumption that they were entitled to enroll in PSLF.
«The reason
why going to graduate school is not going to be very beneficial for some majors in terms of financing is to get the degree you need to spend your time in school for an extended period of time.
I'm a little embarrassed that I'm 26 years old and still getting my undergrad while a lot of my friends have
already gone to graduate school, have great jobs, are getting married, and buying houses.
This all made sense to me 30 years ago when I was just out of college, had not
gone to Graduate School yet, and wanted to set myself apart from the crowd by being a «Unique Me» that employers or customers just had to have.
Looking back now, I think the Yale Norfolk was significant only in that I felt I didn't have to
go to graduate school since I hung around with a few graduate students and they were all talking about moving to New York.
Since I did
not go to graduate school for theology, I will have to defer to my seminarian brethren to define the circumstances in which debt is OK.
So instead, he worked as a mechanical engineer at Kearfott Guidance & Navigation Corp. and
eventually went to graduate school to pursue that line of work at Washington University in St. Louis.
«Repaying student debt also appears to be slowing some current homeowners
who went to graduate school and now can no longer afford to sell and trade up because of their loans,» Yun says.
(I, I, of course, sold truck bumpers and
then went to graduate school to gain a master's degree in political science, making me extra un-employable.
If you're thinking
about going to graduate school, you've probably got a lot of questions — things like which program to pursue, what schools to consider, and whether to attend full - or part - time.