Reply #94: Yeah, mine had this trainwreck where they decided they were a vocational school for a year [View All]

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The school I applied to was one where half the people in my program went on in academia - which was my plan - and half ended up working in the field in other ways. Between the time I was accepted and the time I got on campus they decided to shake things up to remove as much of the academic work as possible. This was explicit: one of the reasons they restructured the program was to limit the students' ability to go on in further graduate work. No individual research, no thesis, no papers ("you already know how to write those"), etc. Add the fact that each of has at least somewhat specialist backgrounds that often conflicted wildly with the others, and add to that the fact that we were generally given no say in what the group projects would be, and it was a recipe for disaster.

Basically, if I could ethically get away with denying I'd ever gone to that school, I would. In any case, I'll need another master's before I can be seen as worthy of real scholarship, because there was, by design, no evidence of it in the one I currently hold.