Please Help: Way, way in the future

interesteddad
Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:38:05 +0000

The way grad school works is that you serve as indentured slave labor for your university, doing research for your professors and teaching undergrad courses as a TA. In exchange for five years of hell, they give you a Ph.D.

Here are some thoughts on the PhD/academic career path from one of Swarthmore’s most well-liked young professors, Timothy Burke:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/gradschool.html

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/welcome.html

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/endgame.html

While you’re at it, he also has a wonderful article on writing essays: