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.
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
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
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.
