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Is Graduate School Useful in Today's World?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the life-after-your-bachelors dept.

An anonymous reader wonders: "gradschoolstory.com has an entry on the Top 10 Reasons to go to Graduate School in the Modern World. Why did Slashdot readers go to graduate school and what did they get out of it?"

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  1. I bet they got... by dubmun · · Score: 2, Funny

    a graduate degree!

    Assuming they graduated from said graduate school...

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  2. Re:Is Graduate School Useful in Today's World? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    maybe you didn't get out of it as much as you could of.

    Well, it's pretty obvious one thing you didn't get out of it: a working knowledge of English grammar.
  3. Re:Graduate School by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know what they say about Yale graduates, don't you? They always find a way to work into the conversation that they're from Yale. =) Either that, or they weren't taught not to pee on their hands. I forget which.

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  4. Re:Yes, it helps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Knowing how to spell it is the first step to getting it, you know.

  5. Re:Graduate School by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 4, Funny

    So a couple of people are walking in New Haven, and they come across this guy.

    "Where are you from?", they ask.

    "Yale."

    "And what's your name?"

    "Yonathan Yones."

  6. Re:Is Graduate School Useful in Today's World? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you had received a quality education, you could have figured out what was wrong with that statement.

  7. Re:Line by line by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How many ways can one spell the word "embittered?"

    Ten, apparently.