If I were king of grad school

If I were king of grad school here, I would try to make things not so shitty. I would be realistic. I wouldn’t play the school off as an institutional leader when it’s clearly behind the times. I’d make sure the school respected it’s graduate students. Here, it seems, we’re second class citizens. Ninety percent of the classes are shared with undergraduates. We are quarantined to research courses that have no bearing whatsoever on the news gathering business. What is so special, then? What is the attraction, if all you’re getting is a glorified undergraduate education? Dude, I’ve already got a piece of paper that says I have a BA. Why did I give up my whole life to come to a place that doesn’t care about me or my colleagues? It’s frustrating, maddening and it makes me sick.