First, the pros and cons of each:
Grad School Pros:
- Learn things that not everyone knows
- Learn to be have a good argument, or at least make others think it's a good argument
- Meet people with similar interests (in my case, all Girls)
- Spend 20+ hours/week with these people
- Almost never be judged when doing research/homework on your laptop..in a bar possibly at the bar (FREE WIFI)
- Free access to research databases
- student discounts
- Pajamas allowed
- Summer vacation (sort of)
- Financial aid checks
- Learn things that you will never use
- Be around people who make better arguments than you
- Realize that you don't necessarily like all people with your same interests
- Spend 20+ hours/week with some people you may not like very much
- Realize that you probably should give up alcohol for Lent, just to make sure you're not an alcoholic.
- GRE to get in
- PRAXIS to get out
- Unpaid internships
- Unpaid internships for 40 hours/week and homework for 6 credits
- Undergrads
- Living with Undergrads
- Living with Undergrads at a party school
- Student Loans
- Theoretically, you get paid (I don't currently, but let's overlook that)
- People actually think you know what you're talking about (surprisingly, sometimes you do too)
- No homework
- Meet people with similar interests
- Employee Discounts
- Paid vacation
- work 40 hours/week EVERY week
- no summer vacation
- working with the same people everyday (some of who you may not like)
- Waking up at god-awful hours in order to look nice
I suppose I didn't reconstitute them.