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and you continue to be bad at reading that article did nothing to refute anything I said. it's framed in apology. its point is not "you can get a job at a research institution with a degree from a lesser school," its point is "hey, getting a job at a smaller school ain't all that bad." ok, sure. and how many people who try to get PhDs at lower ranked schools have no research aspirations? and as the job market becomes more and more flooded, who is to say that even positions at these schools may not go to the plenty of graduates from top named schools? given how abysmal the job market is regardless of who you are or where you went, frankly more people should only be bothering with top schools with a track record of placing people in positions that both pay money occasionally and also allow you to do more than act as a caretaker of overprivileged idiots flooding upper-crust liberal arts schools A, B, and Z. I don't care if you hate the ivy league, I don't care if you don't think rankings are worthwhile--frankly I don't think I care about anything you think--but there are people who obviously do care about those things, and those people happen to be in charge of whether or not you get a job. luckily for you, Buffalo is quite highly ranked. so you and your frankly annoying milquetoast regurgitation of every platitude of academia are more than on track to pollute our educational institutions with your mediocrity. fifteen years from now I'm sure you'll happily tell little suzy english about all the wonderful paths a PhD from Bumfuck McNamedafteraphilanthropistnoonehasheardof U will open up for her, so long as there are enough Bumfuck U's holding enough conferences and running enough journals to ensure that you will look busy enough to secure tenure while you encourage people to follow their dreams all the way to foodstamps and suicide. hey-o! the things you can say when you no longer plan on posting here!

Jobs as a fun exercise, go click through the bios/CVs of professors at any school you've heard of. see where they got their PhD's from.

$$, indeed

I hate my cat, though, so there's that. yeah, I'm that guy. is deadinthewater gradcafeguy or am I not keeping up on these things

sacrifice your cat to the academic gods

oh hey, seems they did send me a rejection letter. ten minutes ago.

so good that she failed to send you or anyone else a simple rejection letter

me toooooo high five

also appear to be rejected. I'm glad the school was so good at communicating with its applicants!* *they did not communicate with me at all, and I am, in fact, not glad

turns out they give you a limit. what will you think of next, internet

if there's any post more interesting than a series of endless dumb gifs, it is a post complaining about button clicking on the internet just to annoy you I am going to downvote every post on this page. serious repercussions. CAN YOU HANDLE IT!?

I thought they got rid of the Fulbright program?

please don't say hook 'em horns. sloganeering is like the worst thing

I don't really think you can turn down the PhD offer (should it come through) just out of deference to decorum

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