#GTOTD1
In light of my anger at the pedagogical doctoral practices, I decided to put my rants to better use. Here is my GRADUATE TIP OF THE DAY (GTOTD) #1: Grad school is like pledging. The professors are hazing you into the elite club of intellectuals with tasks that feel irrelevant, useless, and simply dumb. They engage in teaching practices that were done to them, not (for the most part) pedagogically sound. Such as insisting on assigning 25 PAGE papers they most likely will not read in depth, engaging in discussions that hit, kill, dice, and beat the topic to death, and/or offering Yoda responses to direct and cogent inquiry. They sneak in their research (just to expose you) to their way at contributing to the collective pool of knowledge that you are drowning. If you want to survive graduate school, here are my tips: 1. Find a crew/clique/posse/study buddy....whatever. You cannot do it alone. You need one or two folks to share your struggle. 2. Learn the r
