Graduate Programs

[Anonymous No.3957875]

Believe it or not I feel I have been lucky enough to receive a great deal of knowledge from lurking /lit/ and have discovered many great reads and great ideas. Next year is my senior year and I'll graduate with a degree in English and Government and Foreign affairs. I've been struggling about what to do for graduate school. Law has always seemed like a stimulating and lucrative career, but I'm curious if there isn't some other more intellectual or bookish graduate program that could get me a more rewarding career.

tl;dr: If money wasn't an object, what graduate program would you attend to gain a career in an intellectually rewarding field?

[Anonymous No.3957880]

My first choice would be to study artificial intelligence at MIT.

If I were to choose something in the humanities I would pick English Lit and attend Cambridge.

[Anonymous No.3957908]

I would study the law.

It is an incredibly intellectually rewarding career path. You will work alongside the best and the brightest. You might even become the president one day.

[Anonymous No.3957933]

>>3957908
Not op, but what if you care too much about political and statist bullshit?

I love debating, but I hate unnecessary rules. Is there a place for me in law school?

[Anonymous No.3957937]

>>3957933
>but I hate unnecessary rules

I don't even know what the hell you mean. Law is ideally necessary rules. Your job is to shape and change the direction of the law to match the progress and growth of society.

You'd better be smart as hell and rank well. Good luck.

[Anonymous No.3957966]

>>3957937
>thinks people who go to law school get jobs "shaing and changing the direction of the law"

Unless you are wealthy, intelligent, and at Harvard or Yale law, you are going to get a job writing real estate contracts for companies. You will work hard and be paid little, and no one will respect you.

[Anonymous No.3957970]

>>3957966
Yeah, that's why I said you had better rank well.

>not going to law school in a T3 law school and getting good connections

shiggy

[Anonymous No.3957976]

>>3957970
It's not just "rank well." The market for lawyers is oversaturated to point that half the graduates from schools in the top 20 can't get jobs in law. In this economy, there's no reason to go to law school if you aren't at Harvard or Yale.

[Anonymous No.3957977]

Don't go to law school unless it's one of the best in the country (assuming USA I mean Ivys, UVA, Georgetown, Stanford, etc.) the job market is murder especially if you don't finish in at least top 25%. I am so glad I didn't go into law, it was one of the careers I had considered and it's a really rough path these days.

[Anonymous No.3957983]

>>3957937
>>ideally
I get that. What I mean is that I can't passionately argue for just anything someone wants to pay me to argue about. The problem is that I get the impression I won't find much work because I really only like to prove that I'm rationally correct and could care less about emotionally convincing others whether criminals deserve more or less consequences for being wrong. Seems necessary.

[Anonymous No.3957984]

>>3957983
If you didn't always want to be an attorney it's probably best if you don't go to law school.

[Anonymous No.3957992]

>>3957984
Cool.

[Anonymous No.3958001]

>>3957875
roman history

[Anonymous No.3958004]

>>3957875
this question is just too vague.

What's a career?
What do you find intellectually rewarding?

Many subjects are still to broad too speak about such things

[Anonymous No.3958005]

>>3958001
you mean Classical Studies

[Anonymous No.3958006]

>>3958005
thank you for the pedantic response.

[Anonymous No.3958167]

>>3957976
Actually the hire rate is about 50% across the board. That includes unranked schools. Chances are that if you go to a T14 law school you'll be walking out with a job.

[Anonymous No.3958300]

>going to college

you can always learn things on your own, dumbass

[Anonymous No.3959501]

library and information science?