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Your guide to grad school
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this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2026
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If you want a read about the humanities in particular, here's a history PhD's commentary on his experience: https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-to-grad-school-in-the-academic-humanities/
Eh, maybe. It'll probably be less relevant for me because the humanities are basically all politics, there's very little way to just "get results."
But i'll probably still give it a read, it's bound to be helpful.
Edit: did read, was depressing.... I wonder how similar the experience is in a STEM program? I'm sure the advice of "choose your advisor carefully" applies, but at least internships are pretty common so you can 'test drive' your advisor somewhat.
Since a part of the funding the humanities are starved of is directed to STEM, it may be less arduous there. Problems of sexism won't be much better, but maybe at least closer to the societal norm, which might be the most depressing sentence I've written in a while.
What do you mean with "get results", by the way?
Publications, patents, grant funding...
Basically the sort of stuff that's politically useful to your university and advisor regardless of any personality conflicts you may have