Don't Go To Grad School

@Aaron695 - it was written by a person who is too stupid and too lazy to make use of the tools that are available. No, not everyone can really "get something" by going to graduate school. And not everyone that does go to graduate school is going to succeed because of it. But to say that graduate school is useless, or that it makes you a bad candidate for jobs, is just stupid. Personally, I don't want to work for a company that doesn't value education.

I went to graduate school, busted my ass all day every day, and landed a great job before I graduated just this past Saturday. Is that the story that everyone in gradschool gets to tell? No. But getting a job isn't the reason I went to gradschool in the first place. And building a house isn't the reason you walk into a hardware store. You go to the store to get the tools, and you speak with professionals to get the knowledge. Then you are better equipped to tackle real tasks when the time comes to use those tools.

Master's degree in the humanities is useless? I landed a 48K starting salary job. Do I have 60K in loan debt? Yeah. But you know what? I'll have it paid off in two years. Because it's called an investment. Investments can pay off if you make them do it, and if you can't that doesn't mean it was a bad investment, it just means you were unable to make it pay off.

These people that complain about graduate school are just bad investors, they can't see potential, and they are discussing a machine that they can't understand. It's fine that they do it, and I'm glad that they feel as though they are making a good point. But I've got no patience for them, because they are discussing things that they have no understanding of, and it's like being back in grad school where the bad students tried to act like they did the work but didn't. It shows them to be lazy, stupid, and a waste of my time.

Is this a parody? I seriously can't tell.