I've been going back and forth on my decision for graduate school.
A number of rabies people at the C.D.C. got their start at the Wistar Institute, which is affiliated with UPenn. And honestly, I fell a little bit in love with the laboratory at UPenn. I feel like it's a place I want to spend time in.
Mostly, I feel scared about going to graduate school. I know I'm smart, a good student and a hard worker, but graduate school is different than professional school. The actual facts you're required to learn are fairly minimal, the most important lesson is how to think for yourself. I can't shake the feeling that memorizing facts can be done, with enough energy and time, no matter what. But if you're too dull to formulate a truly elegant research projects, it can't be helped.
I am teetering on the verge of a great unknown.
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I remember reading about how in certain parts of Asia and in Macedonia, people use cormorants to catch fish.
The fisherman uses a ring or tie on the bird's neck so it won't be able to swallow the fish it catches.
Every seventh fish the fisherman has to give to the cormorant or else the bird will stop fishing.
And if I remember correctly, after a few years, the cormorant won't fish for the fisherman any more.
The cormorant would rather starve than lose all but the seventh fish.
Except maybe that last part isn't true.
The fisherman uses a ring or tie on the bird's neck so it won't be able to swallow the fish it catches.
Every seventh fish the fisherman has to give to the cormorant or else the bird will stop fishing.
And if I remember correctly, after a few years, the cormorant won't fish for the fisherman any more.
The cormorant would rather starve than lose all but the seventh fish.
Except maybe that last part isn't true.
2 comments:
I must add the disclaimer that you are considering "real post-graduate" studies.
My University wasn't really too picky with their enrollment process nor their presentation of a degree.
You'll do great, but I don't want to encourage you because I don't want you to leave. I'd rather feed your fears of not being good enough in a selfish attempt to get you to stay.
PS: I'm also considering doing this to Adam. I've lost to many good friends to the pursuit of higher education (Justin, Scott, Brian just to name a few)
do the only truly rational thing: flip a coin.
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