Graduate School Is a Means to a Job

I thought this was a pretty good article in The Chronicle; it gives some really good advice. It is geared more towards the humanities/social sciences so some of the advice applies more to those areas (e.g. going on the market while ABD... that seems to be much more common in these fields). But most of the advice ( Read more... )

Have you all thought of what you're going to do if you can't secure a teaching job after graduation? Don't kill me, but I have an undergraduate degree in anthropology and am not in graduate school yet. I'm pretty confident that I can get into a good program, but I know the statistics: simply getting into a good graduate school doesn't mean much ( Read more... )