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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:16:00 EST
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- From: DGPAZ@CLEMSON.BITNET
- Subject: Re: Graduate schools
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- Other factors that (in my view) are important in selecting
- a graduate school (in the U.S.A.) include:
- (1) quality of the library -- go for a graduate school at a
- university that has been around for a long time, and that
- therefore has been able to collect lots of books, pamphlets,
- and periodicals from the C19 and perhaps earlier.
- (2) break out of your region -- If you have been educated in
- the South, go elsewhere for your degree. If you are a
- Midwesterner, go to a good graduate school somewhere else.
- (3) quality of life -- go to a graduate school that is located
- in a town that prizes diversity in culture, politics,
- and society, and that exposes residents to a wide spectrum
- of experiences == I have in mind Ann Arbor, Chapel Hill,
- Berkeley, Madison // or that is located in a big city like
- New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia.
- (4) study abroad -- think, work, and even save money to include
- study abroad as part of your graduate training.
-
- Denis Paz
- Department of History
- Clemson University
- South Carolina, U.S.A.
- dgpaz@clemson.bitnet
-