More Americans than ever are going to grad school, thanks to stubbornly high unemployment. And so this issue is devoted to all those acronyms beyond the B.A. But while much of today’s focus is job preparation, we like what Anna Saikin, a Ph.D. student and blogger at Rice, sees in the experience — “the chance to discuss esoteric topics with like-minded people, to no discernible end other than the pursuit of knowledge.”Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Education Life: Beyond the B.A.
More Americans than ever are going to grad school, thanks to stubbornly high unemployment. And so this issue is devoted to all those acronyms beyond the B.A. But while much of today’s focus is job preparation, we like what Anna Saikin, a Ph.D. student and blogger at Rice, sees in the experience — “the chance to discuss esoteric topics with like-minded people, to no discernible end other than the pursuit of knowledge.”
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