This deserves to be read widely, especially this time of year:
Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go
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It's hard to tell young people that universities recognize that their idealism and energy — and lack of information — are an exploitable resource. For universities, the impact of graduate programs on the lives of those students is an acceptable externality, like dumping toxins into a river.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education.
UPDATE: Link fixed.
