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From: lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto)
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Subject: Re: Grad school and humanities
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Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 20:15:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  1 20:15:22 1985
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> >> (apparently in the humanities,
> >> graduate school is something you do for fun, and to prove that your parent

> >Cheryl,
> >	Just a doggone minute!  That isn't necessarily the case.
> >  It is *not* true of the English, history, philosophy,
> >etc. majors *I* knew that went on to grad school.  They went on
> >for the same reasons anyone in CS or EE or any other discipline

> Hm... I would have to disagree. Seems that people who go to 
> undergraduate humanities are as described (rich parents, etc.),
> and then they flock to computer science for a quickie masters
> for the buck. Doctorates are another story. I mean, how can
> you become a yuppie with an MA in history? And then there was
> a classmate in Anthropology who loaded/unloaded Bud Light trucks
> 40 hours/week to get a BA in general studies (:-? :-? :-?)
> 
> Spiros ut-sally!usl!sigma but not for long, heading for ST@GMR

As anyone who has spent a few years at a competetive grad school 
( Harvard, Princeton, etc) can tell you, NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT 
MIND WOULD DO IT FOR FUN.  Especially people in the humanities 
who are paid even less than students in the sciences(who are
starving themselves).  At Princeton the graduate students were
almost uniformly middle class, and if Mom and Dad had paid for 
the BA that had just was about it.  Given the hardship it was a 
wonder that they WEREN'T all rich.
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Michael Lonetto  PHRI  NYC  (allegra!phri!lonetto)

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