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[alicia666]

Does anyone else find it...irritating, I guess, when someone with an MBA tries to talk to you about graduate school admissions, or graduate school itself? I don't think they realize how different it is, that most of our schools accept 12 students out of 700 applications when their schools accept 50% of applicants...and that the whole experience is

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[markovnikov]

lol, at least you don't always have people assuming you're going to school to be a pharmacist. whenever i tell me i'm going to school to get my phd in organic chemistry, and they ask me what i can do with that, and i say something like "pharmaceutical research" (which is basically the only thing i can say that people would understand), i often get "oh my brother is a pharmacist. pharmacy school is difficult."

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[alicia666]

whenever i tell people i applied to graduate school, they assume MBA or law, because my BA is in econ...

haha pharmacy school is cool...actually if i knew how much pharmacists make before i decided on a major i would have become one!

[lepid0ptera]

It's harder to get into than med school, though.

[alicia666]

pharmacy ? i believe it.

[myrddyn]

It seems like the same thing could be said for the differences between science and humanities research programs. Very different in a lot of ways. I doubt there are a lot of english grad students who sit in lab all day trying to get a procedure just right or many science folks who read hundreds (if not more) of pages of literary analysis in a sitting.

[alicia666]

agreed.

[crazypumpkin]

I don't know, which the amount of journal articles we read, we definitely do go through quite a bit of paper.

[iamtheshoshie]

::eyes her pile of chem thesis references::

Poor trees.

[dezelina]

I'm going to school for history, and everyone asks me when I will begin my career at McDonald's.....grr.

[zanylikethat]

Yeah, my BA is in Comparative Literature and people always go, "Haha, do you want fries with that?"

It gets so old, so fast! I always want to snap back at them, "Wow, you are so witty! I have never ever heard that one before! Remind me again what you're doing with your life that is so superior...?"

Usually I can hold back the temper, though. ;)

[rolled_trousers]

Ugh, I'm studying philosophy and I get that question all the time, too. Then when I tell people I'm planning on teaching, they give me a weird, smug look. I want to teach; I'm not doing it just because there's "nothing" else to do with my degree!

[dezelina]

I feel the same way! I love teaching and the thought of being able to teach a specialized field is very cool....people just don't get it sometimes!

[bloria]

Haha, I know what you mean. I am going for my MSW and I applied to just one school. This community has been a big help with writing my SOP and getting letters of recommendation and all that, but really, all the other entries pretty much scare me and reinforce my decision to practice Social Work :)

Good luck to all of you!

[rather_singular]

Haha, so true about the MBAs! I was complaining to my friend on MSN late one night about writing my SoP, and she had just started dating an MBA student. She added him to the conversation. He couldn't give me any useful information at all, but he was nice. He was very amused by how specific our interests have to be. Then for some reason he convinced himself that I was really studying one of the joke topics we came up with together, and he now introduces me to everyone as the one who studies *joke topic*.