If you haven't seen it already, this brief homemade video, So you Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities , is currently making the rounds in cyberspace. Have time to take a looksie?
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7451115/
I checked it out today and had a good chuckle. The low-budget quality is great; perfect for the topic under consideration! You really should watch it all the way through--it's only 3 minutes long--because the film honestly does get better and better. How many PhDs out there had a similar conversation before applying to graduate school ages ago? How many more conversations like this will it take to convince young people that a humanities PhD, particularly in a field like English, is not always the best way to reward one's hard work as an undergraduate? There are better ways, my friends.
For what it's worth, I honestly do hope prospective PhD applicants will take the film's message to heart, even if they think it's a total exaggeration. (FYI: It's so not an exaggeration . . . regardless of how sad this may seem.)
Enjoy!
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Gun Death Cult
12 hours ago
3 comments:
I've seen this all over the internet and it is pretty funny. What's crazy is how something seemingly obscure could end up getting so many hits. There are obviously a lot of angsty professors, adjuncting PhDs, grad students, and wanna-be grad students out there looking for comic relief. Hope we'll see more in future!
good start
Thanks for the info!
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