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2980968 No.2980968 [Reply] [Original]

Hey, /lit/,

I'm about to embark on my Master's degree in Folklore starting this Spring.

Does anyone have any advice about grad school? What kind of experience can I expect to find in graduate school? What should I be prepared for?

>> No.2980974

>>2980968
>What should I be prepared for?
Working at Starbucks for the rest of your life

>> No.2980975

Masters in CW here. Prepare for the most pretentious faggots you'll ever meet in your life. Prepare for people thinking they don't need a masters in the subject to know more about it than you. Prepare for all the LOLNOJOB jokes. Prepare to not give a fuck because you're doing something you want to do with your life for the soul purpose of the betterment of understanding ad not because you are another waste of space who just wants money.

>> No.2980983

>>2980975
i'll have a latte sir...and before you ask I would not be innnarested in a blueberry muffin

>> No.2980981

Prepare to be surrounded by hipsters.

>> No.2980986

Any other future burger flippers on /lit/ tonight?

>> No.2980988

>>2980983
>>2980986

So what are you two doing with your lives then? Apart form obviously sitting on a literary forum and absorbing information form those much more informed than yourselves.

>> No.2981000

>>2980988
Did you just write that? Time to hide this thread.

>> No.2981006

>>2981000

Ah, so you're doing nothing? Thought so.

>> No.2981010

>>2980968
>I'm about to embark on my Master's degree in Folklore
Holy fuck, don't. Folklore is a form of pop-culture, and it's the absolute worst kind of it.

>> No.2981012

And the award for least funny webcomic ever goes to...

I don't know why you faggots eat this shit up. "Oh, they are talking about grad school. That means this is applicable to my life."

Idiots.

>> No.2981017

>I want to professionally study the products of drunken merriment with a straight face.
Ok.

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>> No.2981128

>>2981012
I saw it was a .gif and opened it expecting there to be a punchline.

Oh how wrong I was.

>> No.2981150

>>2980968
Assuming this isn't a troll thread, why on earth would you do something like that? You know, there's nothing stoppping you from learning a useful skill and earning a reasonable living while still studying the things that interest you. If you're really lucky, the best you can hope for is a life sequestered in the academic bubble, peering out at actual daily life like a monk in his cell, and trying to make sense out of a world of experience that no longer includes you.

>> No.2981278

>>2981150

I have no desire to learn a useful skill, but thanks.

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>>2981017

>> No.2981286

Everything about this thread made me verbally say "Yikes."

>> No.2981423

>>2981010

It's a form of it that I want to study, so therefore I am going to.

>> No.2981545

>>2981423
i hope you're not recieving any public funding

>> No.2981601

>>2980968
im 12 and what is this

>> No.2981609

>>2980975
>soul
>not sole

They let you into grad school?

>> No.2981617

>getting a masters in FOLKLORE

holy shit kill yourself

>> No.2981632

Masters in Medieval Literature here

fuck the haters

>> No.2981634

>>2981632

Huh. I didn't know that degree program existed.

>> No.2981636

Why not get your Master's in classics? That has a lot to do with folklore but also language and philosophy and whatnot.

>> No.2981642

>>2981636

I want to focus specifically on Folklore, and I live near one of the only universities that offers it as a Master's program.

>> No.2981646

>>2981642

Anthropology would be more employable (in academia not private sector). Think of that for a PhD.

>> No.2981677

>>2981646

Anthropology is another degree program that I have considered.

>> No.2981694

>>2981632
>>2981632

Tell me about Aucassin and Nicolette!

>> No.2981697

>>2981677

Anthropology student here. It's very versatile, so you can probably gear it towards anything in humanities and a few things in the private sector as well. But it's the sort of thing you want to combine with something else.

>> No.2981705

>>2981697
> It's very versatile

Yup, you can go into cultural anthropology, which is basically like sociology, only somewhat less concerned with numbers, or linguistics, or archeology, or physical anthropology, which is basically primatology.

So you can work with monkeys or languages or folklore or whatever you want.

>> No.2981735

>>2981705
>It's very versatile

Yes, you can work at Starbucks OR McDonald's

>> No.2981787

>>2981735
nuh uh
I applied for work in both starbucks AND mcdonalds and couldnt even get short listed.

I have an MA in social anthropology.

they dont want to employ you in these places if you have a degree because they expect you to leave at the first oppertunity you get

>> No.2981843

>>2981787
Aren't they right, though?

>> No.2981868

>>2981843
word many places prefer no school to lots of school.

>> No.2981878

>I'm about to embark on my Master's degree in Folklore starting this Spring.

enjoy serving coffee for the rest of your miserable life.

>> No.2982459

>>2981735
Finish your doctorate and you can work at both

>> No.2982493
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2982493

>Master`s in folklore
>Getting a job anywhere other than McDonald`s

>> No.2982525

>Starbucks
Fuck that, I got my MA in History and now am a Medical Underwriter, five weeks vacation and nine paid holidays off a year. I still teach a few online history courses at the local jr.college to scratch my itch but Insurance is a pretty enjoyable gig.

>> No.2982549

>>2982525

Sounds like a nice life.

>> No.2982572

>that feel when Literature major and working at B&N
>sometimes work in the cafe(starbucks(not really we just sell their coffee don't try to use a starbucks gift card)) when they're really busy to help out
>realize that I'm a walking stereotype
>avoid working in the cafe ever again

>> No.2982583

Folklorist isn't a terrible gig. It's just one of those positions where you'll have to do a lot of writing for journals and a lot of social networking in order to make a living from it. It's not like one of those easy mode practical degrees, where the jobs just fall in your lap.

>> No.2984455

>>2982525
How much do you make in a year?

>> No.2984509

>>2981012
Oh that was the joke? I thought it was an unfinished comic or something, or I just have no sense of humor as usual

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>MA in creative writing

>> No.2984525

>MA in Romantic Literature
>Write and produce radio drama, chiefly for the BBC (mostly horror and detective stories)
>Met my fiancée at a college postgraduate evening

I recommend pursuing your passion, OP. Good things can come of it.

>> No.2986018

Follow your bliss guys! Things will end up good!


I'm suicidal now.

>> No.2986412

>>2980975
> Prepare to not give a fuck because you're doing something you want to do with your life for the soul purpose of the betterment of understanding ad not because you are another waste of space who just wants money.


The world need more of these dudes, word!