Is Graduate School merely an extension of college or something more?
Graduate school is qualitatively different than college. Ideally, you go to college to investigate issues that grip you and to luxuriate in the learning process under the guidance of scholars who are eager to acquaint you with the particular field that has come to excite them. In college you have the opportunity to receive a good liberal arts education. Through this experience, you gain the ability to think and write critically in the context of a particular discipline with which you have an affinity. The expectations within a college setting are usually confined to what the teacher articulates in the classroom. While being an even more intellectually exciting experience than college, graduate school is also a much more ambitious, all-encompassing endeavor. The primary goals of graduate school are two-fold: to teach you how to do independent research in an area you love and to train you for a specific career. The achievement of both of these goals will require you to summon and sustain
