oh....boo hoo....
Graduate work is seldom worth much if it hasn’t been seasoned with a bit of real world work experience, following your undergraduate degree.
Then, either you or your company can pay for it.
Nobody will want to be a Doc under Obamacare anyway and we already have too many lawyers.
One thing we’ve suggested to our son is that he live at home and go to a good local college. He would then have money to afford going to graduate school. He’s a senior in high school so we’ll see what he decides.
Graduate work is seldom worth much if it hasn’t been seasoned with a bit of real world work experience, following your undergraduate degree.
Agreed, and in my profession this may be doubly true. After earning a computer engineering degree 15 years ago, I decided to start a computer science master's program last Fall. My interest, commitment, and ability to learn are much higher than they were before, in spite of having other important things on the docket--a full-time job, 4 kids, volunteer work, etc. Going back to school has given me an opportunity to learn a lot of advances in computer science that have been developed in the 15 years or so since I finished my undergrad. I would never have used the word "fun" to describe school until I started grad school, and even though it's a ton of work, I'm having the time of my life.