Do Your Homework Before Deciding On Graduate School

There’s a great article at the Daily Princetonian that you’ll want to check out if you’re considering going to graduate school. Princeton professor Anthony Grafton gives some great insight into what graduate school is like and the present challenges facing those on a quest for a higher education:

If you love editing friends’ chapters and arguing about their ideas, if you find that being immured in a carrel for long days and nights with several hundred books is oddly exciting, then you have good reason to think about making another, longer dive into the scholarly deep. But don’t jump before you find out exactly what lies below.

–Anybody Thinking of Graduate School?