{"id":24944,"date":"2024-01-25T20:08:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T01:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=24944"},"modified":"2024-01-26T15:59:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:59:14","slug":"job-or-grad-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/01\/25\/job-or-grad-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Job or Grad School?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AW01252024-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AW01252024-4.jpg\" alt=\"Job or Grad School?\" class=\"wp-image-24933\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Job or Grad School?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s different, so it&#8217;s hard to give advice without knowing your specific situation or what kind of grad school you&#8217;re thinking about. But I will say, grad school is not &#8220;undergrad-plus&#8221;, it&#8217;s an entirely different thing which is largely self-directed. It can help to have a couple of years doing something else to clarify your thinking about what you want to do in grad school. But: talk to your advisor and the career center also before you choose, I&#8217;m just speaking from the experiences I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s different, so it&#8217;s hard to give advice without knowing your specific situation or what kind of grad school you&#8217;re thinking about. But I will say, grad school is not &#8220;undergrad-plus&#8221;, it&#8217;s an entirely different thing which is largely self-directed. It can help to have a couple of years doing something else to clarify your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/01\/25\/job-or-grad-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Job or Grad School?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24968,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24944\/revisions\/24968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}