Dude, who even knows.
Post reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 16 notes
Was there ever a time it would have made sense to get a Masters in History? It’s not a teaching credential, but what would it be even for? Boarding school faculty? Officers getting credentials for promotion, at one of the military staff colleges?
@tototavros said: fucking around because you don’t know what to do with your life but you know you like a professor or two?
Yeah, I’m thinking about this, sniffing about exploitative masters’ programs towards an abolish-the-debt conclusion.
There were definitely people I knew at Cornell who went to grad school cause “go to school” had only ever been the premise of their life I guess. Except they went to doctoral programs (which they dropped out of to become a private school teacher, or some college administrator, or go to law school).
And honestly I had already realized it was too late for law school, overhearing AutoAdmit for one, but just hearing from my dad what the practice had been over the years, and seeing my cousins go in the ‘90s and become Philly biglaw lawyers, knowing that it didn’t make you some squire member of the court of local nobility anymore, it was just kinda tedious professional service, well paid in income but not really an in to get your slice of the whole system.
Which like, I only saw that cause I had an inside view from a clan of lawyers and I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect even law school applicants to have a kontextmaschine-level facility with projecting the development of social institutions into the future.
One weird thing is library school was something I was starting to see rising as a law school-like life path for that post-academic cohort. I honestly think one of the subtexts of all the drag queen reading hour stuff lately is that an academic-credentialing complex has convinced new librarians that they are Trained Professionals, Figures of Authority Leading Their Communities, but none of their communities particularly think that.