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From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Grad school and humanities
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 13:47:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 13:47:44 1985
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> (apparently in the humanities,
> graduate school is something you do for fun, and to prove that your parents
> can afford it or something--I don't know.) 
>                                      Cheryl
Cheryl,
	Just a doggone minute!  That isn't necessarily the case.
With the twit you mentioned (edited out for brevity) it may have
been true.  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
would...often because they need the advanced degree for a job, 
and they have fallen into the inconvenient habit of eating daily.
-- 

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