The sophomore of academic achievement, the next step after an undergrad, surely putting your foot above the rest. Standing out in a sea of bachelor degrees, whilst not looking too specialised with a Phd. Still young and fresh and ready and geared up to go. The workforce waiting with bated breath, salivating like a wolf pup, desperate to take you on and immediately give you a job from the Times top 100.
So now I work at NUSU.
In all honesty, I have enjoyed my masters more than undergrad…so far. It was a more than a bit of a leap to go onto a postgraduate degree, but I liked the changes somewhat. The more emphasis on own independent research, the notion that you’re breaking new ground; on second thought I might have just been bad at my bachelors. And maybe also my masters? These questions are the kind of deep internal struggles that baffle the MA student.
Switching from a history degree to an international relations degree perfectly suited me, my interests aligned with it. It’s fun, it’s my kind of thing. I’m enjoying it, I think?
It’s a lot of work, a lot of independent work. I’m meant to act smarter and more academic than I actually am. But I’m more able to pursue what I want, more able to follow my own interests and more suited to what I want to do. I think my history background give me a good academic base and I’m able to expand on that. With a lot of waffling.
Is a masters overrated? No. If anything it’s underrated, I get to feel cooler than most people so that helps. I really enjoy it as well. I do, I do. In other ways it’s fun, I get to study more things and do more things. I enjoy it. I do? I think. Yeah, pretty sure I do. Would I recommend it? I don’t know, ask somebody else.