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Posted by Sam on September 7, 2010 at 5:31 pm | permalink | Reply I am currently a grad student and I am doing this because there was no way I could find a job after getting laid off, and wanting to leverage my chances for a careerchange. So you generalizing that grad school is not the way to go is totally wrong.
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