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So, I am to graduate this year. 21 years old and I'm supposed to be educated? I feel like I aven't learned anything I didn't already know. Save for perhaps 3 classes, I haven't needed to use my brain. This passes for intelligence in the world? all I have to do is wake up and stumble into class... I never did homework, I never cracked a book... guess I just had a natural affinity for tests....
So it comes to the crux of my situation: graduate school
I am soon to pursue a doctorate in Ethnomusicology. this is scary for me. I am suddenly at the point where I knew i'd be at some undisclosed and unreal point in the future. Applying to Schools to get into a doctoral program
My choices are UCLA University of Chicago, Wesleyan in CT (i think), Columbia, a couple of places in england and one in dublin.
My choices are UCLA University of Chicago, Wesleyan in CT (i think), Columbia, a couple of places in england and one in dublin.
any thoughts or advice?
A couple of questions to ask yourself:
1. Do you want a career in academia?
2. What kind of music do you want to write a dissertation on?
Because: 1. That's the normal reason for doing a PhD. (aka "Piled Higher and Deeper")
2. Different schools have different specialists on staff, and you would do well to see who is teaching where, and choose the school that has the prof or profs who have done work in your area of interest (or somewhere similar) and so could be helpful to you.
(Yes Wesleyan is in Middletown, CT; I don't know who's there now but for a long time it has been a good place for South Indian and Indonesian music - for example.)
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