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

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

Editat de Allison Rodman, Bosko Blagojevic, Jessica Loudis, John Arthur Peetz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 iul 2014
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?InShould 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781620405987
ISBN-10: 1620405989
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

ACTIVE AUDIENCE:A piece from the book (also titled "Should I Go to Grad School?") by Ron Rosenbaum ran onSlate, was widely shared and drew 650 comments. It promptedSlateto do a similar story, "Getting a literature PhD will turn you into an emotional trainwreck" by Rebecca Schuman -- which got 36k facebook likes, 7.5k facebook shares, 1400 tweets, and drew nearly 2,000 comments.

Notă biografică

Jessica Loudisis a writer and editor based in New York. Her writing and reviews have been featured in theNew York Times Book Review, theWall Street Journal, theSan Francisco Chronicle, theBeliever,Slate, theDaily Beast, and elsewhere.Bosko Blagojevicis a New York-based artist, writer, programmer, and arts entrepreneur who founded Platform for Pedagogy in 2008.John Arthur Peetzis a writer and an editor at Platform for Pedagogy.Allison Rodmanworks for the Armory Show in New York City.

Recenzii

This charming collection of very personal essays by writers, artists, scholars, and filmmakers who have considered, and in most cases enrolled in, MFA and Ph.D. programs does the great service of offering no generalized advice. Once you finish the forty or so short pieces, you will certainly like almost all of these interesting and accomplished people. You will remember their funny, self-deprecating lines. You will appreciate their candor about failure. You will note the ubiquity of good luck in the stories by the few tenured scholars who contributed. You might even, as I did here, yearn to spin your own myth about the inspiration and perspiration of graduate school. But if you are considering grad school, you will not find your answer here. And that's a good thing.