About once a year I get this nagging feeling that I should apply for a PhD program.
I ultimately do nothing more than re-read New Kid on the Hallway’s teaching horror stories, and then creep around the Little Professor’s blog for a while.
Getting a doctorate definitely isn’t about money because associate professors at the local public university make roughly what I make now. Tenure also seems like a dying thing, and really, a MBA is the way to go if I was solely interested in money.
Pursuing a PhD would be about the intellectual challenge and being back in a university setting.
There is something about being a student that I really miss.
I remember taking my Weimar Cinema as an elective during my last year of law school and being slightly envious of the PhD students in it…
What’s funny is that I was already working full time and some of the graduate students said they were jealous of me. They were mostly in eight year programs…eight years of shitty apartments and stipends... Going from the corporate world to that sounds downright reckless.
Still, I might sneak in the GRE after my GMAT test.
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