I think that it’s high time we here at Perverse Egalitarianism offer our own advice for graduate students. To that end, I’m posting last week’s New Yorker cover as a sort of carrot on the one hand, and as a little dose of “the Real” (I capitalized it so everyone can know that I’ve opened a book by either Zizek or Lacan!) on the other. Keep on. Keep on. (I do fear that this image is disturbingly true, however.)
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Man, once I figured out what was happening in that cover (old room, proud face of the recent doctor, terrified and confused faces of the parents of the recent doctor) I realized that I will never be able to put up my diploma up with a straight face.
Otherwise, the cover is spot on!
but what about education for it’s own sake..?
It’s awesome?
Strange but it seems that simply putting the word “advice” in the subject line of a post drives our traffic up – a Harman Syndrome?
Mikhail, this just makes it crystal clear to me that this kind of advice is sorely needed and probably needs to be published in a book format. Next advice post: “If you can read this, then you aren’t finishing” to be followed by “Landing a FT TT position is easy.”
In fact I believe the stats are all about it, I think the latest prediction is “I’m pretty sure 95% of you will get jobs!”