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How can you be smart enough to get into an elite graduate program in Philosophy and not be aware that this is exactly what academic life is going to be like? I
by sien 9y ago
How can you be smart enough to get into an elite graduate program in Philosophy and not be aware that this is exactly what academic life is going to be like?
In the 1990s in Computer Science people were well aware that being an academic could result in Professors getting less money than their graduates first jobs.
Is it because everyone still thinks they are a special snowflake and they will get great prizes immediately or something?
(edit) Should have added. Some of the smarted people I know also went into academia and some have really made it. It's just that well, there are so many academic 'refugees' who leave because the job prospects are dire and this has been the case for decades. And so many of those people are very bright and hardworking too.
- SiempreViernes 9y agoLets consider the other side, how can a "elite" graduate program in philosophy be dumb enough to accept someone with very incorrect expectations? A PhD student dropping out is costly for them too.
- sien 9y agoThe graduate program gets money and cheap labour from enrolling students.
- rohit2412 9y agoThen a smart program will find ones who won't drop out
- nitwit005 9y agoProbably because she had excellent grades, and was very enthused at the start of the program. There's no magic way to determine, years in advance, that someone will become disenchanted with their career choices.